Jessica Wynn

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

So it has to be accompanied by training for healthcare workers and even teachers who can identify at-risk girls.

You know, there needs to be support for survivors who come forward.

And crucially, for diaspora communities in Western countries, immigration and asylum protections need to be happening for girls at risk.

Some girls have successfully fled FGM through asylum claims.

I mean, I guess they were lucky that it didn't happen when they were a baby and they

had the autonomy to leave, but

The argument is that they face a well founded fear of persecution and that their home country is unable or unwilling to protect them.

So courts in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia are

They have all granted asylum on these grounds.

There are NGOs that specifically work on FGM asylum cases and help girls and families navigate the legal process.

And these organizations, they're underfunded, but they are doing life-saving work.

So supporting FGM asylum legal aid organizations, that's one of the most concrete things someone can do to help.

I actually once I started doing the research, was amazed and sort of pleased by how many like reels and and posts started popping up that were against this.

So data shows that fifteen and nineteen year olds in affected countries are way less supportive of FGM than older generations.

But we don't really know how that shift is happening, if it's social media or other things.

I think

you know, social media is definitely swaying opinion.

There's youth activists in Nigeria, Kenya, and Egypt, and they're using TikTok and Instagram and YouTube, you know, to talk about FGM in ways that would have just been unthinkable a generation ago.

So they're sharing their stories, they're debunking myths in local languages, they're organizing, they're building communities of solidarity for survivors and girls who are resisting.

So this is young women and men in affected communities deciding on their own terms in their own languages and cultural contexts that this practice ends with them, and that's enormously powerful.

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