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gender discrimination has been reduced in many areas of medicine and society, it remains true that a UK child's protection from medically unnecessary irreversible surgical procedures on his healthy genitals still depends on perceived gender.In 2013, the UNCRC categorised ritual circumcision as 'Violence against Children'1 and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe expressed concerns2 about "a category of violation of the physical integrity of children, which supporters of the procedures
Show Moretend to present as beneficial... despite clear evidence to the contrary...Competing Interests: Chair Secular Medical Forum of the (UK) National Secular Society working to protect patients from the imposition on them of other people's personal religious beliefs. - Page navigation anchor for Bad Medicine: Men matter tooBad Medicine: Men matter tooThank you so much for this article. The silence amongst medics on this hugely important topic sickens me. In response toShow More
Patrick Bower , your argument is flawed, and if using your argumentone could argue that FGM shouldbe legalised so...Competing Interests: None declared. - Page navigation anchor for Men matter tooMen matter too
I thank Des Spence for having the courage to share his views on the circumcision of boys for non-medical reasons.
In recommending or agreeing to perform an operation,
...Show Morehealth professionals are expected to look at the risks and benefits of the procedure.In the case of these circumcisions there are no medical benefits, hence the risks however small they may be, cannot in my mindbe justified .Competing Interests: None declared. - Page navigation anchor for Bad Medicine: Men matter tooBad Medicine: Men matter too
I open the BJGP hoping to improve my practice by evidence-based medicine. Male circumcision may tick many of the boxes of political incorrectness, but there is no evidence whatever to suggest that it is in any way comparable in terms of physical or emotional trauma to female circumcision. A more rational discussion would be to compare the benefits and harms of Des Spence’s proposed solution. He seems to
Show Morebe suggesting thatdoctors in this country should be banned from performing this procedure. This will not stop non-medical circumcision, but will ensure that it will...Competing Interests: None declared.