Jessica Wynn

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

So this encourages communities to reach their own conclusions.

And when the decision comes from inside the community, it's much more likely to last.

You know, when elders and mothers and religious leaders collectively decide this is not who we are anymore, that

That change is durable and it holds because you know it belongs to them.

Yeah, I mean sometimes, sure, but not always.

Uh Somaliland is an extraordinary example.

So through the UN Trust Fund to end violence against women.

Grassroots organizations in Somaliland led a program of education, dialogue, and community engagement, and within the last thirty years parental support for ending infibulation surged nearly a hundred percent.

And the number of religious leaders who recognized infibulation's harmful effects went from fifty two to ninety-six percent.

No, those are near total community transformations and they happen through patient, respectful, locally led conversation, not legislation.

Not external pressure.

Just real conversation which

as we're finding out, is really hard to have.

And in twenty eighteen, they banned infibulation.

Unfortunately, the other types are still practiced, but you know, progress is progress.

Yeah, well, although FGM isn't required by scripture, there are communities where it's justified using religious or traditional arguments.

But there's a small village in Mali called Tongoy, and when their very respected, powerful religious leaders changed their position and publicly declared an end to FGM, the social permission structure changed with them.

So these religious leaders have influence that no external organization can replicate.

So working with them, equipping them with accurate information about what FGM is, and then it's not required by their faith and what the health consequences are, that's not just useful.

That's often the determinative factor.

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