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|Text=In June 2019 the Finnish government established a government program with a gender neutral aim on [[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 childrenschildren' genital s genitals will no longer be performed."

The government program was re-established in December and the same wording remained. In November, the [https://stm.fi/en/frontpage Ministry of Social Affairs and Health ] and the [https://thl.fi/en/main-page Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare ] published a new action plan named "[[https://thl.fi/en/research-and-development/research-and-projects/non-violent-childhoods-action-plan 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.

The best way to curbe genital cutting for a particular group of children is to curbe 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.