2023-03-22 Sacramento Bee - Debate on Nebraska gender-affirming care bill gets combative ("How come we're not talking about circumcision?")

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Sacramento Bee
March 22, 2023

Debate on Nebraska gender-affirming care bill gets combative

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Nebraska legislator Carol Blood said: "If we care so much about procedures on children, how come we're not talking about circumcision?"

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I'm sure Carol Blood would love to hear from people thanking her for recognizing that forced genital reduction surgery on healthy normal children boys is a human rights violation, and that informed adults can decide for themselves about their own bodies.

https://nebraskalegislature.gov/sena...php?District=3 {https://nebraskalegislature.gov/senators/landing-pages/index.php?District=3}

https://www.facebook.com/senatorcarolblood {https://www.facebook.com/senatorcarolblood}

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Don't forget the link to her Twitter account - specifically, this one tweet she made after the debate:

https://twitter.com/senatorblood/status/1638576814636539906

[Frizzen]

Seemed like a good chance, so i sent this
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Dear Sen. Blood, I heard about some of your statements during debates on a Gender-Affirming Care bill.
"If we care so much about procedures on children, how come we're not talking about circumcision?"
Thank you for being willing to bring up Male Genital Mutilation in the conversation. Male infants were specifically excluded from equal protection under the FGM Act of 1996, and further excluded from equal protection in 2020. I'm glad you're willing to see the inequality and work to make the world a better place.
I hope that you weren't just posturing, and are actually committed to equality and protecting the defenseless. I hope you can be counted on to put forth some protective legislation for males such as

http://www.mgmbill.org/mgm-bill.html

Gender affirming care is important to those who want it, and everyone deserves the right to their own bodily autonomy. Please help everyone be protected from non-consensual genital mutilation.
Thank you for your time,