Jessica Wynn

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

And the path to male allyship runs through creating space for those men to break that silence, to name what they know is wrong, to say, not my daughter.

So men who speak up aren't just protecting individual girls.

They're like fracturing the consensus that the practice depends on.

But the legal picture here, you know, that's mixed.

it really depends on where you are.

Egypt has made FGM a federal crime punishable by up to fifteen years in prison, though enforcement, you know, remains kind of uneven.

In twenty twenty four, the European Parliament adopted a new directive requiring all EU member states to criminalize FGM, increase public awareness, and provide support to survivors.

That means twenty seven countries, that's huge.

In the United States, of course, the situation's more complicated.

So a federal law banning FGM was effectively struck down in twenty eighteen when a federal judge in Michigan ruled that criminal law on this issue should be left to individual states.

He was ruling on a specific case involving this Detroit doctor who was accused of mutilating the genitals of multiple girls.

I mean, it shocked a lot of people because it just shattered the assumption that this was only happening overseas.

And there was

No l federal law here to enforce it, so it shaped the legal landscape with the result that some states have explicit bans, others don't.

Advocates w are working state by state to close those gaps.

I mean it is crazy that we don't have a federal law banning this.

Yeah, it's just wild.

So yeah.

They just criminalize a practice, but they're not protecting anyone, you know, laws without political will and social support behind them, they tend to push these kinds of practices underground rather than end them.

In the legal framework, it's necessary, but it's just not sufficient.

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