The Need for a Unified Ethical Stance on Child Genital Cutting (journals.sagepub.com)

> We argue that these appeals to “health benefits” as a way of justifying medically unnecessary child genital cutting practices may have unintended consequences. For example, it may create a “loophole” through which certain forms of female genital cutting—or female genital “mutilation” as it is defined by the World Health Organization—could potentially be legitimized.

Male babies receive nonconsensual cosmetic surgery on their genitals; women worst hit, naturally.