If you’re a UK citizen, please join me in signing this. Carrying out MGM is of course already an offence under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 (as is FGM) but not specifically illegal, so we welcome this petition. FGM is specifically illegal as a result of legislation in the 1980s.

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