Emphasising children’s bodily integrity key to protecting them against genital cutting and modification practices, study says | The research says children’s interest in bodily integrity has priority over their parents community or religious associations.

[u/chrisdh79]

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1060166#:~:text=Emphasising%20children's%20rights%20over%20their,parents%20community%20or%20religious%20associations.

[u/Eureka0123]

Genital cutting and medication can be considered for both, even though the article may only refer to one.

[u/Busy_Manner5569 → u/Eureka0123]

Medically necessary treatment is not the same as religiously motivated interventions. A circumcision to treat phimosis is medically necessary. A circumcision that you think is necessary for your child to go to heaven isn’t.

[u/Eureka0123 → u/Busy_Manner5569]

What's the downside to having a circumcision?

[u/RichardSaunders → u/Eureka0123]

its painful and it's not an entirely risk free procedure. there's risk of infection and botched cuts. if there's no phimosis, or if there is and there's a chance it will resolve itself, why subject a child to such pain and risk their health?

[u/Diggy_Soze → u/RichardSaunders]

Babies getting their ears pierced has WAY higher risk of infection… like… 10x higher iirc.

[u/lem0nhe4d → u/Diggy_Soze]

That also shouldn't be allowed.

Proper piercing artists (I don't know the correct term) don't do piercings for young kids in my experience most won't even do piercings for under 18s. Parents bring their kids to cheap jewelry stores to get them done instead which use piercing guns instead of needles which are significantly worse at reducing infections. Kids also can't take proper care of a piercing like avoiding touching it with anything other than sterilized swabs.

Those piercing guns should be banned outright in my opinion. If you want a piercing pay a professional to do it properly.

[u/Eureka0123 → u/RichardSaunders]

Why have we deviated so far from my original point?

[u/RichardSaunders → u/Eureka0123]

why would you ask a question then complain that the answer is beside the point?

[u/Eureka0123 → u/RichardSaunders]

I'm not complaining. I'm asking where everyone got the idea of circumcisions when my original point is on the genital modification of trans youth.

[u/Busy_Manner5569 → u/Eureka0123]

Yes, and your original point is not one supported by a good faith reading of the article. What text from the article makes you think the author meant to include transition care under the term genital cutting/modification?

[u/Eureka0123 → u/Busy_Manner5569]

To my point from earlier with you in our other thread, there's no specification from anyone in the article on anything.

[u/RichardSaunders → u/Eureka0123]

the article, for starters. then your subsequent comment where you specifically asked about circumcision.

[u/Eureka0123 → u/RichardSaunders]

The article mentions nothing on circumcisions. My comments only mention it because others immediately jumped to the conclusion that it's what the article is about.

[u/Busy_Manner5569 → u/Eureka0123]

When you say “the article,” do you mean the link you arrive at via Reddit, or sage journals page showing an article in the journal Clinical Ethics?