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Intact2022 started today. Online participation was nearly as expensive as the rate for in-person, the difference being the meals I suppose. Plus in-person requires time to travel, travel expense, and lodging. My boss/wife decided I would participate online.
It was great today. Here's the program of speakers including their topics and bios. https://intactamerica.org/wp-content...-Program-1.pdf
Here are my contemporaneous notes:
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Session 1:
Andrew Little is suing Windsor Regional Hospital for doing unnecessary amputative surgery on his healthy infant body.
Andrew's slides weren't very legible online due to low contrast, so I don't have a lot of detailed notes from them .
He's a brilliant and very inspiring non-law student who is representing himself legally very well.
(See Andrew Little's presentation slides attached to this posting)
The hospital and Ob/Gyn each turned around and counter-sued Andrew's PARENTS for signing the consent form. They deserve our very public derision and many days of visible traffic-snarling protests.
Andrew Little's talk, now online:
{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeqiBS_nDDw}
Session 2:
Eli Ungar-Sargon introducing Bruchim.online
14 board members
7 Rabbinic advisors
He says the US has 7.5 mil Jews
32% (and growing) are "Jews of No Religion" - The Nones
Bruchim is surveying Jews about role of circumcision - 150 filed so far
Of Israel's 3 million secular Jews:
- 7% are opposed to RIC (210,000)
- 12% say it's not important
- (so 500,000 Israeli Jews are not interested in preserving circumcision)
The "Dr. Mark Reiss" directory of intact-friendly organizations, brit shalom celebrants, camps, congregations, etc. is growing every day due to the hard work of volunteers who cold call daily.
Session 3:
John Geisheker, D.O.C.
Discussed 1500 Caregiver Foreskin Retraction (CFR) Cases, got just 2 apologies
Dr. Sayre "invented" congenital phimosis in an early fraudulent medical paper.
2 Indiana women held guns during well-baby visits in case doctors tried to retract their sons.
Many state Medicaid programs declined FOIA requests regarding Medicaid re-imbursements, some want in-state petitioners, we can help.
Llewellyn mentioned: A 1952 Nursing Manual says retract newborns
Bleeding to death can happen with no evidence in diaper, since just 2 oz of blood loss is deadly.
In-Office cutting and sending baby home in an hour is unethical due to risk of unstable patient.
There is a channel for public comment on ICD-11.
Session 4:
Steven Svoboda (no slides)
How male do you need to be to lose your right to an intact body?
Session 5:
Scientist Jeffrey Cartwright-Smith
Showed video clip: "You dirty uncircumcised freak" -Chelsea Handler
Session 6:
Kelly Floyd, Scarring Innocence
For what other body parts do I need to list the functions of it before it is assumed to be within the sole purview of the body owner?
Those who oppose trans care (even when at the patient's request) are hypocrites unless they fight against non-therapeutic genital reduction with only proxy consent.
Thesis - MGM is not controversial or a gray area. It's WRONG!
Questioner: How to engage the younger generation? The younger generation IS already more empathetic and receptive to fairness arguments.
Session 7:
Leif Thompson, MD - Genital Cutting: Enhancement or Mutilation?
Taught OLLE (Osier Life-Long Learning) class on fgm/mgm and mutilation vs enhancement
The ISSM has a definition of sexual health rights. Concurs with W.A.S.H. (Dr. Eleanor Rudolph of S.A.) but doesn't go as far.
Session 8:
Lena Nyhus on US interference in the Danish MGM age restriction law.
Intact Denmark has developed a rules standard for what is a "proper" circumcision. It is now used there.
Obama's ambassador to Denmark threatened sanctions if Denmark regulated MGM.
There are only about 5 Jewish ritual circumcisions/year in Denmark. The rest ( I think she said 1000-3000) are Islamic.
Risk of terrorism was a widely discussed topic while the initiative was live: "How many kids need to die in school busses so your initiative can go forward?" and Lena once had to filibuster, saying only "The initiative will reduce harm to Danish children by postponing risky harmful unnecessary surgery until the patient can responsibly weigh in" for a couple hours. Intact Denmark has over 1000 media appearances per year.
Netanyahu tweeted that the Danish PM promised never to legislate regarding circumcision.
FOIA type inquiries show dozens of US interference efforts directed to the Danish legislature.
The Vice-Chair of Intact Denmark is Jewish and an MGM victim, so he shuts down arguments that the initiative is Antisemitic.
The "proper" circumcising rules have been rolled out.
Denmark has laws against spanking and even verbal abuse. 90% of the citizenry agrees: How can they allow non-therapeutic genital surgery?
Session 9:
Norm Cohen (father is a rabbi, Norm is not Jewish) on Jewish Continuity (only a couple slides)
Totemism: Animals, plants, or objects inherited and venerated and claimed to be magical, imbued with the tribe's history and purpose.
"Brit Milah is the way the past is unforgettably written on the body of a new member of the people." (If it's a male)
Session 10:
Steve Scott - The War against the genitals, notes from the front line
1984 - the AAP pamphlet lists the functions of the foreskin:
e.g. Protection from infectious agents and irritants
Subsequent pamphlets omitted any talk of functions
Dr. Susan Blank ended the AAP Q&A session when Steve asked why there was no "function" stuff anymore.
Wissell's UTI numbers disagree with rest of the world, yet he has been cited all over.
Steve asked Wiswell if parents had a right to better info than in present consent forms.
The high volume of infused numbing fluid from a proper infant ring block distorts the surgical target and can lead to a poor cut.
Phil Donahue Show: "Survey shows 90% of Catholic school boys masturbated, 10% were liars."
“The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.” -Mark Twain
Steve knows 2 doctors who read Fleiss's book and stopped cutting.
"There's nothing more important in life than to be important in the life of a child." -Fred Rogers
Wallerstein's book "Circumcision: An American Health Fallacy" was cited as the source of his drawing in AAP's 1984 policy, then the drawing used but the book title NOT cited in 1989.
Session 11:
Travis Wisdom - Best Interests Principles - rights-based approach for Intersex Persons in Australian Law
The USA is the last country that hasn't ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCROC) and the only reason could be that it would require an end to forced non-therapeutic genital cutting.
When legislating regarding historically disadvantaged groups: "Nothing about them without them"
Session 12: Trish Causey is absent
Session 12A: David Llewellyn - Anatomy and Botches
Campbell Walsh Anatomy falsely shows dartos not connected to foreskin
Grant's Atlas - likewise
cirp.org/library/normal has Cayaba article re: 10.5 years is average age to be retractable. Attendees concurred about their own sons.
It was great today. Here's the program of speakers including their topics and bios. https://intactamerica.org/wp-content...-Program-1.pdf
Here are my contemporaneous notes:
= = =
Session 1:
Andrew Little is suing Windsor Regional Hospital for doing unnecessary amputative surgery on his healthy infant body.
Andrew's slides weren't very legible online due to low contrast, so I don't have a lot of detailed notes from them .
He's a brilliant and very inspiring non-law student who is representing himself legally very well.
(See Andrew Little's presentation slides attached to this posting)
The hospital and Ob/Gyn each turned around and counter-sued Andrew's PARENTS for signing the consent form. They deserve our very public derision and many days of visible traffic-snarling protests.
Andrew Little's talk, now online:
{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeqiBS_nDDw}
Session 2:
Eli Ungar-Sargon introducing Bruchim.online
14 board members
7 Rabbinic advisors
He says the US has 7.5 mil Jews
32% (and growing) are "Jews of No Religion" - The Nones
Bruchim is surveying Jews about role of circumcision - 150 filed so far
Of Israel's 3 million secular Jews:
- 7% are opposed to RIC (210,000)
- 12% say it's not important
- (so 500,000 Israeli Jews are not interested in preserving circumcision)
The "Dr. Mark Reiss" directory of intact-friendly organizations, brit shalom celebrants, camps, congregations, etc. is growing every day due to the hard work of volunteers who cold call daily.
Session 3:
John Geisheker, D.O.C.
Discussed 1500 Caregiver Foreskin Retraction (CFR) Cases, got just 2 apologies
Dr. Sayre "invented" congenital phimosis in an early fraudulent medical paper.
2 Indiana women held guns during well-baby visits in case doctors tried to retract their sons.
Many state Medicaid programs declined FOIA requests regarding Medicaid re-imbursements, some want in-state petitioners, we can help.
Llewellyn mentioned: A 1952 Nursing Manual says retract newborns
Bleeding to death can happen with no evidence in diaper, since just 2 oz of blood loss is deadly.
In-Office cutting and sending baby home in an hour is unethical due to risk of unstable patient.
There is a channel for public comment on ICD-11.
Session 4:
Steven Svoboda (no slides)
How male do you need to be to lose your right to an intact body?
Session 5:
Scientist Jeffrey Cartwright-Smith
Showed video clip: "You dirty uncircumcised freak" -Chelsea Handler
Session 6:
Kelly Floyd, Scarring Innocence
For what other body parts do I need to list the functions of it before it is assumed to be within the sole purview of the body owner?
Those who oppose trans care (even when at the patient's request) are hypocrites unless they fight against non-therapeutic genital reduction with only proxy consent.
Thesis - MGM is not controversial or a gray area. It's WRONG!
Questioner: How to engage the younger generation? The younger generation IS already more empathetic and receptive to fairness arguments.
Session 7:
Leif Thompson, MD - Genital Cutting: Enhancement or Mutilation?
Taught OLLE (Osier Life-Long Learning) class on fgm/mgm and mutilation vs enhancement
The ISSM has a definition of sexual health rights. Concurs with W.A.S.H. (Dr. Eleanor Rudolph of S.A.) but doesn't go as far.
Session 8:
Lena Nyhus on US interference in the Danish MGM age restriction law.
Intact Denmark has developed a rules standard for what is a "proper" circumcision. It is now used there.
Obama's ambassador to Denmark threatened sanctions if Denmark regulated MGM.
There are only about 5 Jewish ritual circumcisions/year in Denmark. The rest ( I think she said 1000-3000) are Islamic.
Risk of terrorism was a widely discussed topic while the initiative was live: "How many kids need to die in school busses so your initiative can go forward?" and Lena once had to filibuster, saying only "The initiative will reduce harm to Danish children by postponing risky harmful unnecessary surgery until the patient can responsibly weigh in" for a couple hours. Intact Denmark has over 1000 media appearances per year.
Netanyahu tweeted that the Danish PM promised never to legislate regarding circumcision.
FOIA type inquiries show dozens of US interference efforts directed to the Danish legislature.
The Vice-Chair of Intact Denmark is Jewish and an MGM victim, so he shuts down arguments that the initiative is Antisemitic.
The "proper" circumcising rules have been rolled out.
Denmark has laws against spanking and even verbal abuse. 90% of the citizenry agrees: How can they allow non-therapeutic genital surgery?
Session 9:
Norm Cohen (father is a rabbi, Norm is not Jewish) on Jewish Continuity (only a couple slides)
Totemism: Animals, plants, or objects inherited and venerated and claimed to be magical, imbued with the tribe's history and purpose.
"Brit Milah is the way the past is unforgettably written on the body of a new member of the people." (If it's a male)
Session 10:
Steve Scott - The War against the genitals, notes from the front line
1984 - the AAP pamphlet lists the functions of the foreskin:
e.g. Protection from infectious agents and irritants
Subsequent pamphlets omitted any talk of functions
Dr. Susan Blank ended the AAP Q&A session when Steve asked why there was no "function" stuff anymore.
Wissell's UTI numbers disagree with rest of the world, yet he has been cited all over.
Steve asked Wiswell if parents had a right to better info than in present consent forms.
The high volume of infused numbing fluid from a proper infant ring block distorts the surgical target and can lead to a poor cut.
Phil Donahue Show: "Survey shows 90% of Catholic school boys masturbated, 10% were liars."
“The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.” -Mark Twain
Steve knows 2 doctors who read Fleiss's book and stopped cutting.
"There's nothing more important in life than to be important in the life of a child." -Fred Rogers
Wallerstein's book "Circumcision: An American Health Fallacy" was cited as the source of his drawing in AAP's 1984 policy, then the drawing used but the book title NOT cited in 1989.
Session 11:
Travis Wisdom - Best Interests Principles - rights-based approach for Intersex Persons in Australian Law
The USA is the last country that hasn't ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCROC) and the only reason could be that it would require an end to forced non-therapeutic genital cutting.
When legislating regarding historically disadvantaged groups: "Nothing about them without them"
Session 12: Trish Causey is absent
Session 12A: David Llewellyn - Anatomy and Botches
Campbell Walsh Anatomy falsely shows dartos not connected to foreskin
Grant's Atlas - likewise
cirp.org/library/normal has Cayaba article re: 10.5 years is average age to be retractable. Attendees concurred about their own sons.
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