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These are the World Health Organization's key facts on FEMALE genital mutilation:

Female genital mutilation (FGM) includes procedures that intentionally alter or cause injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.

The procedure has no health benefits for girls and women.

FGM is mostly carried out on young girls sometime between infancy and age 15.

FGM is a violation of the [[human rights]] of girls and women.

My first observation is that these key facts are missing something very important. Violation of consent.

Do these facts apply to what we just saw?

Intentionally (yes) altering (yes) and causing injury (yes) to the female (no) genital organs (yes) for non-medical reasons (yes)

Health benefits. This is a moot point. While some will argue for the benefits of circumcision, there are also harms (that health organizations refuse to acknowledge) such as the loss of the frenulum, loss of tissue, loss of mobility and long term harm to the glans, and then there are all the risks. Furthermore, in lack of consent, even the benefits are obtained by unethical means.

Circumcision is mostly carried out on young boys sometime between infancy and age 15.

What are the rights of boys and men? Do boys and men have rights to their physical integrity, to their [[genital autonomy]]?

[WHO]: Female genital mutilation (FGM) comprises all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.

[We] (Again, from the UNAIDS article): "The desire to ‘belong’ is also likely to be the main factor behind the high rate of adult male circumcisions among immigrants to [[Israel]] from non-circumcising countries (predominantly the former Soviet Union)."

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