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'''Marilyn Fayre Milos''', {{RN}}, ({{LifeData|1940-03-22}}), who has championed the rights of infants and children to bodily integrity and [[genital autonomy]] since witnessing [[circumcision[[ as a nursing student in 1979, spoke at the [[WWDOGA]] in 2015. She has studied at the College of Marin.
'''Marilyn Fayre Milos''', {{RN}}, ({{LifeData|1940-03-22}}), who has championed the rights of infants and children to bodily integrity and [[genital autonomy]] since witnessing [[circumcision]] as a nursing student in 1979, spoke at the [[WWDOGA]] in 2015. She has studied at the [https://www1.marin.edu/ College of Marin].


== Memberships ==
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==Early life==
==Early life==
Born in San Mateo, California, and professionally trained as a Registered Nurse at the College of Marin's School of Nursing, Milos started campaigning against elective non-therapeutic circumcision of baby boys when, as a nursing student in 1979, she witnessed the [https://www.reddit.com/r/Intactivism/comments/qbpzqr/trained_medical_professionals_restrain_infant_to/ circumcision of a newborn baby boy]. It was the moment she realized that her doctor had lied to her about what would happen to her own sons behind closed doors. Once she researched the issue and realized that most of the world's males are not circumcised, the important functions of the [[foreskin]], and the harmful consequences of inflicting [[pain]] and trauma on a newborn baby, she began giving parents accurate information about circumcision. She was told to keep her mouth shut and, in 1985, she was forced to resign. She founded [[NOCIRC]] that same year, 1985.<ref name="Glick">{{REFbook
Born in San Mateo, California, and professionally trained as a Registered Nurse at the College of Marin's School of Nursing, Milos started campaigning against elective non-therapeutic circumcision of baby boys when, as a nursing student in 1979, she witnessed the [https://www.reddit.com/r/Intactivism/comments/qbpzqr/trained_medical_professionals_restrain_infant_to/ circumcision of a newborn baby boy]. It was the moment she realized that her doctor had lied to her about what would happen to her own sons behind closed doors. Once she researched the issue and realized that most of the world's males are ''not'' [[circumcised]], the important functions of the [[foreskin]], and the harmful consequences of inflicting [[pain]] and trauma on a newborn baby, she began giving parents accurate information about [[circumcision]]. She was told to keep her mouth shut and, in 1985, she was forced to resign. She founded [[NOCIRC]] that same year, 1985.<ref name="Glick">{{REFbook
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