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June 18, 2010 by dontgetrats
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Wow. I had never labeled what I was studying on intersex children for my thesis as “female genital mutilation” (probably because it presumes the gender identity of the child) but it certainly could get imperialist feminists to re-examine their own practices. It certainly IS genital mutilation. And it IS fucked up. This article made me think of Hida Viloria, an intersex woman who grew up with an enlarged clitoris, no surgery, and is quite vocal about how wonderful her life has been with it. She’s been on Oprah, at conferences and hearings on state-wide laws about intersexuality, and she’s in the documentary One in 2000–that film I posted a while ago. She’s a pretty clear example of a perfectly happy lady who’s lived without the surgery.
Jesus. How is this not child abuse? How is this not straight up SEXUAL abuse on the part of this doctor? And for that matter, why should a full grown man, who’s taken the hippocratic oath, need a law to tell him not to cut a up a kid’s genitals and use a vibrator on them?
It’s amazing how when you change the term from “FGM” to “clitoroplasty” and the motivation from religion to vanity, a heinous human rights violation becomes a cosmetic trend.
It’s enraging that the functioning status of the genitals at the end of the surgery makes it ok. The surgery itself is just as unnecessary, invasive, and abusive as the aftermath is traumatic.
This story really brings together the politics of language, consumer culture, and obviously, the overlooked abuse of young girls in the US. Thanks for sharing, even though it made me sick.