Jessica Wynn

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

Both are having irreversible procedures performed on healthy genital tissue based on their parents' cultural preferences, religious beliefs, or just aesthetic choices.

Neither boys or girls have any capacity to meaningfully participate in the decision about their own body.

The question isn't whether male circumcision is as harmful as FGM, it almost certainly isn't.

The question is do we believe people have the right to decide what happens to their own bodies?

And if so, you know, at what age does that right begin?

And is our answer to those questions consistent?

Or does it depend on whose culture and whose religion we happen to be evaluating?

I mean, imagine taking your kid like I love tattoos.

I'm not gonna take a three year old to go get tattooed.

You know?

It's just crazy.

honest answer here is that understanding something isn't the same as excusing it.

So if you don't understand why people keep doing it, you're probably not going to stop it.

Most powerfully it's being done by African feminist scholars and activists, and that's exactly who should be leading it.

Yeah, I mean the international response to FGM has been shaped primarily by Western governments and Western headquartered UN bodies.

The funding flows through Western institutions.

The frameworks for defining harm, measuring progress, and designing interventions are largely set in Geneva, New York and London.

The problem is the people best positioned to end FGM often get the least funding and

While these large international organizations get most of the money.

I know, right?

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