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using Template:VanderKolkBA 1989
We now understand that the effects of the extreme [[pain]] of circumcision is [[Pain#Traumatic_effect_of_infant_circumcision| traumatic]], so infant Bill must have suffered significant trauma.
Famed trauma expert [[Bessel van der Kolk]], {{MD}} (1989) reported that traumatized persons tend to repeat the trauma on themselves or others, resulting in harm to others, harm to self, or being re-victimized.<ref name="vanderkolk1989">{{REFjournal |last=van der Kolk |first=Bessel A. |init=BA |author-link=Bessel van der Kolk |etal=no |title=The compulsion to repeat the trauma: re-enactment, revictimization, and masochism |journal=Psychiatr Clin North Am |location= |date=VanderKolkBA 1989-06 |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=389-411 |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/psych/vanderkolk/ |quote= |pubmedID=2664732 |pubmedCID= |DOI= |accessdate=2021-08-06}}</ref>
Bill uses his position as a director of the [[Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation]] to direct huge amounts of money into circumcising sub-Saharan Africa. The Gates Foundation initially provided a grant of $18.5 million to establish the Male Circumcision Consortium, which is to direct the circumcision program.<ref>{{REFweb