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I got involved with this organisation in 2016 after speaking with the Chief Officer during a visit to my hometown. We got talking and he told me about some of the disturbing stories associated with circumcision that had affected some of the men that the charity focussed on.
As we got talking I got more and more interested because intuitively I had always assumed that there was something a bit strange about the practice of [[circumcision]], especially when it was being done for non-medical reasons. I was always told that it has no physicial physical effect and that there is no consequence to it.
Obviously, having any form of surgery, (especially within that region), being forced upon you is something that I couldn't quite understand would be so flippantly disregarded. The more I actually learnt it actually got a lot more shocking as I heard the stories from some of the men and the boys that had been affected.
One of the things that I did notice was that [[Comparison MGM and FGM|there was so much of their plight]] that was parallel to [[FGM]], which I already knew quite a bit about as I have been involved with [[human rights]] for a long time.
As I found out more I also realised that there ahs has been a great strigma stigma against people talking out about these things, because of the subject not being a mainstream palatable conversation to have.
With there being so few people (at least in my background) who are aware of the issue, it was something that I wanted to tackle.
I was hoping to attend [[WWDOGA]] which is something that I fully support, and this year would have been my first time attending, but unfortunately we are in lockdown. Due to the fact that we are stuck in doors I think there is even more impact that our charity has seen with people getting in touch as it is an opportunity for people to try and get answers to their medical problems through the internet.
As they do more and more research to maybe solve some of their problems, I am hoping that this will be an opportunity for them to come into contact with the subject and perhaps find alternatives to circumcision which is a last resort procedure epsecially especially after seeing some the stories that I have become familiar with.
I am excited to be involved with an international audience and collaborate with some of the [[Intactivists|other charities]] out there who have been working to bring this to public attention, because it's about time we had this conversation.
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==Video==<br>
<youtube>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG1yS8ORQQ0&list=PLP3sy53e5kvFnGCYvkFmpJz9dGS0dzkcX&index=6</youtube>