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{{PhotoMissing}}'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' (born{{LifeData|birthplace=Jakobstad|birthcountry=Finland}}) from Turku, [[Finland]], is member of [[Intact Intakt Norden]].

|Text=In June 2019 the Finnish government established a government program with a gender neutral aim on [Transcript follows[genital autonomy]] for children:* "The government will ensure sufficient resources for the work against [[genital mutilation]]." and* "Intersex children's right to self-determination will be strengthened and cosmetic, non-medical surgeries on young children's genitals will no longer be performed." The government program was re-established in December and the same wording remained. In November, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health and the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare published a new action plan named "Non-violent Childhood" with reference to the government program. In chapter 14, the action plan has specific goals on all children's [[genital autonomy]] which conclude that non-medical genital cutting of children can be carried out only when the person[s] themselves can give to it, based on a full understanding of the procedure. For the [[WWDOGA|Worldwide Day of Genital Autonomy]] my message will be:The best way to curbe genital cutting for a particular group of children is to curb it for all children, regardless of their sex, cultural background or other attributes. A family where both parents have had self-determination over their body and their genitals, probably have the best possible pre-requisites to value and cherish the importance of leaving their own child with the same self-determination over [his] body. Best regards from Finland for the [[WWDOGA|Worldwide Day of Genital Autonomy]].