Interesting. This is potentially one of the most important blog posts we’ve ever published. Fingers crossed. It is of necessity a fairly lengthy one.

The start of the article:

“A lawsuit filed by circumcision opponents cleared a crucial legal hurdle last week as a judge shot down Oregon’s attempt to dismiss the case.

The suit, filed in March on behalf of several circumcised men, alleges they suffered unlawful sex discrimination because Oregon lawmakers banned female genital mutilation in 1999 but allowed male genital cutting to continue.

Multnomah County Circuit Judge Melvin Oden-Orr issued an oral ruling Thursday finding that the plaintiffs have standing — in other words, that there’s a valid allegation of harm that could be fixed by winning a lawsuit.

Defeating state attorneys’ motion to dismiss means the litigation can proceed to discovery, a months- or years-long process when both sides turn over evidence.

“They suffered stigmatic harm by being treated as lesser than, or be given less legal rights, because of their sex,” Eric Clopper, [J4MB emphasis] lead counsel for the circumcised men, said in an interview Monday. He also said they were injured physically.”

Some longer-term followers of this blog will recall Eric Clopper as the Jewish man who gave a remarkable talk at Harvard University in 2018 on the subject of MGM. Our blog pieces on Clopper are here.

Our YouTube channel has a playlist of 113 videos on the issue of MGM. It contains Clopper’s talk, which was titled Sex & Circumcision: An American Love Story by Eric Clopper (video, 2:10:50). The full video description takes up the remainder of this blog piece:

“Eric Clopper’s nonprofit combatting infant genital mutilation, please go to https://www.intactglobal.org/ My show ‘Sex & Circumcision: An American Love Story’ premiered at Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre on May 1, 2018.

Two days later, the student paper, The Crimson, defamed the performance that they did not see a “Naked, Anti-Semitic Rant.” Harvard suspended my employment for over 2 months then terminated me and drove my Harvard boss to suicide for supporting me.

If you’d like to support my work, stay apprised of further developments, or help with nation-wide litigation to protect all children from genital mutilation, please subscribe to Intact Global’s email list at https://www.intactglobal.org/

For podcast and publicity inquiries, please email me at eric@clopper.com

I hope you can find the two hours to follow me down the rabbit hole.

— Clopper”

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