Jessica Wynn

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

Absolutely.

And it's even better because it's the inside out model running at the speed of the internet.

You know, I think there is genuine reason to believe that this generation that grew up with smartphones and access to global conversations may be the one that tips it.

Not without

all the other work, but they are a force that wasn't there twenty years ago and it would be a mistake to underestimate them.

So the funding picture is pretty alarming.

I mean, by the end of this decade, an estimated two hundred and seventy five million dollars will have been spent globally on addressing FGM.

The amount that researchers estimate is needed to actually eliminate the practice by twenty thirty is two point four billion dollars.

And the funding that does exist has been declining, particularly for the survivor led organizations and local women's movements that are doing the most effective work.

The gap just isn't closing.

Yeah, and it has a human face.

You know, it's the survivor sitting in a doctor's office who has to explain her own trauma.

It's the FGM asylum case that doesn't get the legal representation it needs.

It's the youth activist in Nairobi who's doing extraordinary work on a mobile phone with no organizational support.

So the money is the politics made concrete.

Yeah, no, I mean there there are legitimate organizations like through the spotlight initiative.

The UN worked with the National Traditional Council of Chiefs and Elders in Liberia to extend a national ban on FGM.

Three hundred traditional FGM practitioners were helped to transition to new livelihoods through training for other occupations.

Because for many of these women, performing FGM, that's their income.

So they have no incentive to stop it, right?

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