Jessica Wynn

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The Jordan Harbinger Show · 1378: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) | Skeptical Sunday · 6 Sep 2026 podcast

So she doesn't fit the picture most people carry around, and that's exactly why her story matters.

he would remember that for sure.

is actually sometimes called vacation cutting.

And this is a documented phenomenon where families living in Western countries like the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, France, wherever, they take their daughters away specifically to have FGM performed.

Knowing it's illegal where they live.

And then the cutting happens in a jurisdiction where it may be legal or where enforcement is weak.

And by the time the family returns, it's done.

You know, Safi's story is just one of many, many vacation cutting stories.

I mean it's so muddy.

So some countries have extraterritorial legislation, meaning their laws technically apply to what their citizens do abroad.

But prosecution is

Extraordinarily difficult.

So you need someone to report it, first of all.

If you do this to an infant or toddler, they're

Yeah, they don't have the the means to do that.

You need evidence across international jurisdictions.

You need cooperation between legal systems that may have very different approaches to the practice.

The UK has had laws against FGM since nineteen eighty five.

And didn't secure its first conviction until twenty nineteen.

So that's one conviction in thirty four years.

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