Talk:Female genital mutilation#Source for origins

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Under the Terminology section, the below quote disengenuously represents the severity of multiple forms of what the WHO defines as female genital mutilation when compared to male genital mutilation (presented within the quotation using the euphimism of "circumcision").

"Until the 1980s, FGM was widely known in English as "female circumcision", implying an equivalence in severity with male circumcision."

Type IA of female genital mutilation is directly analgous to male genital mutilation. Multiple other forms of female genital mutilation as defined by the WHO are far less severe than male genital mutilation including all defined acts under Type IV. Hypocriticalreason (talk) 11:05, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

:File:Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. GrayStorm^{(Talk|Contributions)} 05:21, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Under “types” it is stated that type Ia FGM is rarely performed alone, that is to say, it is typically performed congruently with type Ib. However, neither of the supposed sources provided corroborate this claim. Eliek1996 (talk) 01:24, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

:Note [f] includes, "in very rare cases, only the prepuce" (prepuce = clitoral hood) and "this form appears to be relatively rare" and "Almost all known forms of female genital mutilation that remove tissue from the clitoris also cut all or part of the clitoral glans itself". That supports the claim. Johnuniq (talk) 05:08, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

I found a fact that might belong in this article. See the quote below

1 in 3 girls aged 15-19 living in 31 countries have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM)

The fact comes from the following source:

: https://data.unicef.org/topic/gender/fgm/

Additional comments from user: While the exact number of girls and women worldwide who have undergone FGM remains unknown, at least 200 million girls and women alive today have been cut in 31 countries with representative data on prevalence.

This post was generated using the Add A Fact browser extension.

Laiasolagonzalez (talk) 01:26, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

According to The Wikipedia CiteWatch, the Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences source used, Elduma, Adel Hussein (15 February 2018). "Female Genital Mutilation in Sudan", is not great due to questionable editorial standards by the time of the works publication. Should the source be removed/replaced? Zinderboff (talk) 17:56, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

:Yes. Doug Weller talk 18:28, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

::Removed. Zinderboff (talk) 00:18, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

:::Thanks. Doug Weller talk 08:38, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

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Change "The Skoptsy Christian sect in Europe practices FGM as part of redemption..." to "The Skoptsy Christian sect in Europe practiced FGM as part of redemption" -this group no longer exists and should be referred to in the past tense. Oot1999 (talk) 21:42, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

:What the linked article says is that the sect had almost certainly died out by the 1970s, so I made the edit requested. Thanks Pincrete (talk) 03:51, 25 April 2025 (UTC)