A 13-year-old student was expelled from a Louisiana middle school after hitting a male classmate who she said created and shared a deepfake pornographic image of her, according to her family’s lawyers.

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      This is a false comparison. Circumcision has actual medical uses (e.g. phymosis, cancer, balanitis). FGM does not.

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          …not everyone gets circumcised at birth. I got circumcised in my 30s due to phymosis. No one undergoes FGM at any age for any medical reason. Conflating the two is deeply unhelpful to both the stigma around medical circumcision and to protect people from the brutality of FGM. Not every country is America.

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          Not true. The only study I could find has it at 50-50 with Muslim countries, Israel and the US being clear outliers. This is US-centric thinking.