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Justice for Men & Boys 
Exactly. After all we have two laws on the statute book on FGM. Yet the complete lack of any action on MGM of babies and infants is not new but a very long term deliberate policy of all Governments (in its widest application) here to not look at this issue. Perfectly willing to ride roughshod over “cultural traditions” in FGM Laws (though in reality unwilling to prosecute female perpetrators). MGM remains in a sort of limbo:
“The coroner said there are no national safeguards governing non-therapeutic male circumcision, with no requirements for training, accreditation or registration of those carrying out the procedure, and no rules on record keeping, infection control or aftercare.
He also pointed to the lack of a system for obtaining consent prior to the procedure being carried out.”
Even in my limited knowledge of this issue I can think of three other occasions where Coroners have made the same observations about this limbo. I’m sure there have been many more. But of course no action will be taken because to do so would require MGM of babies and infants to be made legal (because it isn’t currently) to underpin regulation by state bodies (CQC for example). Which would require a Bill in Parliament and a whole lot of debate that politicians are desperate to avoid. Because at the base of this is the fact that it (non medically required MGM) is done for “cultural traditions”, precisely the same reasons disregarded for FGM.
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Another highlight of the real two-tier justice in the UK that long predates the current government but which they have no interest in resolving.
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