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Unfortunately, as history all too often demonstrates, the existence of a right is no guarantee that that right will be respected. At this moment, hundreds of millions of girls and women and a billion boys and men around the world are living with the scars and the damage of forced genital cutting. Who knows how many intersex individuals around the world are living with the [[trauma]] of having had binary sexual-assignment-surgery imposed on them without any need for it and without their wanting it. That is why the Worldwide Day of Genital Autonomy exists. Not to encourage parents, religious leaders, medical professionals and legislatures to grant the right of [[genital autonomy]] to every child — for how can one grant to children a right they're born with? Rather, it's to demand respect for the right of [[genital autonomy]] that, by virtue of being human, every child already has.
Here, again, in the worldwide campaign for [[genital autonomy]], we see the same impulse as that of tikkun olam - — "repairing the world." This impulse, of course, isn't unique to Jews. It motivates people of all cultures and religions and, of course, free-thinkers who recognize that freedom, dignity and self-determination are universal values and who feel themselves called to fight for universal [[human rights]]. The right of bodily self-ownership and [[genital autonomy]] lies at the very heart of the ongoing struggle for basic [[human rights]] the world over.
The worldwide effort to secure the right of [[genital autonomy]] for every male, female and intersex individual, no matter how old or how young, is what the [[Worldwide Day of Genital Autonomy]] is all about. That is why [[Jews Against Circumcision]] is proud to join our brothers, sisters and non-binary siblings of all faiths, all ethnicities and all nationalities in participating in this international event. And that is why we encourage you, on this day — and every day — to defend that most basic and essential human right: the right of [[genital autonomy]].
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