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Originally posted by denim
That's all true, but it's a different topic from what we're talking about in this thread. And the attitude toward it is changing, as per the thread I started a few days ago here. Go there if you want to talk about gender assignment in unobvious situations.
We're talking about mutilation of girls here.
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Hey no need to jump all over me because two previous posters brought up the subject, and one in a way that was clearly out of touch with reality.
I hope if someone says something grossly out of touch in a thread that happens to be OT that we don't have to ignore it and are permitted to respond with some resources listed in a quick post as I did. If someone puts stuff out there that isn't true they need to be called on it. It's really part of the natural evolution of a healthy conversation/productive thread. I'm glad you started the thread on the Time article and will link the references from my earlier post there and encourage any further conversation on gender re-assignment surgery to go there.
But if others are going to link the topic of gender mutilation to gender re-assignment surgery than I would say the topic is very germane to this conversation (thus I made my comments in my last post since it was linked by previous posters).
And now, returning you to our regularly scheduled thread...
Mr. A,
I definitely think the girl in this case should be hooked up with care for both her physical and mental needs she surely has at this point and kudos to you for trying to help. I can understand the poster's reluctance to rip her family apart over this by bringing in the law, but you have to wonder if she is still at risk for something further awful happening to her. If she was my friend I would want her out of that house pronto!