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Association for Genital Integrity

Visit http://www.courtchallenge.com/

The Association for Genital Integrity is a Canadian group committed to raising public awareness of the issues surrounding infant male circumcision. The Association seeks to promote the right of every child to bodily integrity. The site includes Canadian statistics. 

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Attorneys for the Rights of the Child - ARC

Visit http://www.arclaw.org/

ARC, Attorneys for the Rights of the Child, is an international network of attorneys and other supporters of child rights. ARC was founded by J. Steven Svoboda in 1997 and continues to strongly advocate for child rights.

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BIID Info: The most comprehensive source of information about Body Integrity Identity Disorder

Visit http://biid-info.org/

The BIID site aims to inform people about a relatively unknown and misunderstood condition which leads people to need an impairment of some sort. The most often sought impairments are: amputation, paraplegia, blindness, deafness. 

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Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID)

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The Body Integrity Identity Disorder site seeks to increase the knowledge about the disorder. BIID is a psychological condition in which a person seeks an elective amputation. "Individuals with this condition experience the persistent desire to have their body physically match the idealized image they have of themselves." The site includes links to various papers and reports.

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Book: Children's Genitals Under The Knife

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Children's Genitals Under The Knife, Social Imperatives, Secrecy, And ShameChildren's Genitals Under The Knife, Social Imperatives, Secrecy, And Shame, By Hanny Lightfoot-Klein.

The object of this book is to give voice to the multitudes of human beings who exist behind the statistics on genital surgery performed on them when they were non-consenting children, and who have long endured their suffering in silence, for reasons of suppression, desperation, or shame. I have endeavored to create an understanding of the connection between genital surgery perpetrated on infants and children too young to be capable of meaningful consent or effective protest, and of the frequently cataclysmic diminution in quality of life that they have suffered as a consequence.
 

To anyone not totally steeped in denial, or tyrannized by social custom, as most people in genitally mutilating societies certainly tend to be, whether we are talking about female genital cutting, inter-sex surgery or male foreskin ablation, it should be perfectly obvious that genital cutting of any sort is the kind of nightmarish event that makes the most cruel reality of a child's ultimate fears.

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Book: The Rape of Innocence: female genital mutilation and circumcision in the USA

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The Rape of Innocence female genital mutilation and circumcision in the USAThe Rape of Innocence: female genital mutilation and circumcision in the USA, By Patricia Robinett

Genital mutilation in the USA has been a well-kept secret. "The Rape of Innocence" is an autobiographical account of a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant woman who discovered she had been the victim of clitoridectomy as a child in Kansas in the 1950s. The author is a therapist who deals with trauma. In her work, she has met many other American women and men who were genitally mutilated as children and adults. Could you -- or someone you love -- have been cut too? This book may explain the U.S. epidemic of sexual dysfunction, anger, anxiety, depression -- unresolved psychological trauma from circumcision. Now that the word is out, the healing can begin.

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BoysToo®

Visit http://www.boystoo.com/

BoysToo®  is dedicated to equal rights to genital integrity for both boys and girls.

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International Coalition for Genital Integrity

Visit http://www.icgi.org/

The International Coalition for Genital Integrity is an alliance of organizations dedicated to protecting the normal anatomy of males, females and the intersexed, and supporter of the Genital Integrity Resolution. ICGI was formed to coalesce the many activist organizations, each with a specific focus, into one, common voice.

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Intersex Society of North America (ISNA)

Visit http://www.isna.org/

The Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) is devoted to systemic change to end shame, secrecy, and unwanted genital surgeries for people born with an anatomy that someone decided is not standard for male or female. The site has guidelines, tips for parents, a teaching kit, and a FAQ for disorders of sex development (DSDs).

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Male and Female Genital Mutilation

Visit http://www.valyou.org/circumcision.htm

A long web page discussing how many cultures do not respect genital integrity. Worldwide there are 5 male victims to every 1 female victim of sexual mutilation. There is a cultural divide. In the US, female genital cutting is abhorred, while male genital cutting is embraced and given a nice name like circumcision.

The page has numerous links to videos, although some of the links are dead.

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MGMbill.org Publications

Visit http://www.mgmbill.org/publications.htm

MGMbill.org offers various publications, including a Human Rights Report,  Male Genital Mutilation Policy Statement (2006),  The Truth Seeker: Crimes of Genital Mutilation, and miscellaneous flyers and fact sheets.

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Nurses for the Rights of the Child

Visit http://nurses.cirp.org/

Nurses for the Rights of the Child is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the rights of infants and children to bodily integrity. The group seeks to protect unconsenting infants and children from surgical alterations of their healthy genitals.

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Students for Genital Integrity (SGI)

Visit http://www.studentsforgenitalintegrity.org/

Students for Genital Integrity (SGI) is group committed to ending the pratice of forced genital cutting; a human rights abuse perpetuated on children by adults. This abuse is often done in order to conform the body to a particular society's concepts of aesthetics and normality.

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The Ashley Montagu Campaign Against the Torture and Mutilation of Children

Visit http://www.montagunocircpetition.org/index.pg

The Ashley Montagu Resolution and Petition website advocates against the ritual mutiation of genitals of both male and female children.

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The Ethics of Neonatal Circumcision

Visit http://genderacrossborders.com/2009/11/06/the-ethics-of-neonatal-circumcision/

Gender Across Borders, a global feminist blog, discusses the ethics of infant circumcision. The Ethics of Neonatal Circumcision considers personal autonomy. The person undergoing routine infant circumcision is an infant who has not consented to the surgery, which lacks a clear medical need.

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The law and ethics of male circumcision - guidance for doctors

Visit http://www.bma.org.uk/ethics/consent_and_capacity/malecircumcision2006.jsp

British Medical Association page from November 2007 discussing the Law and ethics of male circumcision. The paper states that routine infant circumcision is permitted by UK law. The BMA discusses ethics without declaring if routine infant circumcision is ethical or not.

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The Seattle Compromise: Multicultural Sensitivity and Americanization

Visit http://www.law.duke.edu/shell/cite.pl?47+Duke+L.+J.+717

An article published in the Duke Law Journal, 47 Duke L.J. 717 (February 1999). The article discusses the attempt by a Seattle, Washington, hospital to perform a symbolic sunna (female circumcision) on the daughters of Somali immigrants. The Somalis threatened to have a traditional circumcision performed on the girls if the hospital did not do something.

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The Truth Seeker July/August 1989: Crimes of Genital Mutilation

Visit http://mgmbill.org/crimesofgenitalmutilation.pdf

The July/August 1989 issue of The Truth Seeker, a Freethinker's Publication, deals entirely with genital mutilation. The publication provides very good articles and information on the harms of circumcision, both for infant boys and prepubescent girls.

The link is to a pdf file of the 68 page publication.

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What if Its (Sort of) a Boy and (Sort of) a Girl?

Visit http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/magazine/24intersexkids.html

A New York Times article from September 24, 2006, about Cheryl Chase. Cheryl was born with a large clitorus that was removed as a child. She became a strong advocate for intersexed people and formed Intersex Society of North America.

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YouTube: 2009 SF Pride Parade - Intactivists

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Video of intactivists marching in the 2009 Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco, California. An uplifting look at how the pro-intact message is being delivered.

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