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1. Sign the Call to Action: Avoid Harmful Conflation of FGM/C and Gender-Affirming Care
(News & Blog)
On June 10, 2025, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene raised H.R. 3492 in the House Judiciary Committee. This bill seeks to amend the federal FGM/C law to include gender-affirming care for minors, effectively ...
Created on 17 June 2025
2. The U.S. Must Preserve Integrity of Law Against Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting and to Condemn Its Harmful Conflation With Gender-Affirming Care
(News & Blog)
... Marjorie Taylor Greene. The Bill seeks to expand the scope of U.S. Federal law 18 U.S. Code § 116  ‘Female Genital Mutilation,’ to prohibit and criminalize the provision of gender-affirming care for anyone ...
Created on 17 June 2025
3. Reframing FGM/C Through an Intersectional Lens at CSW69
(News & Blog)
... and Professor James Rockey (Birmingham University), reframed FGM/C as not just a cultural issue, but a serious form of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and child abuse. Professor Rockey shared findings ...
Created on 18 March 2025
4. Sahiyo's response to recent Executive Orders by the Trump Administratio
(News & Blog)
... also concerned. It’s disturbing watching the Trump administration blatantly conflate FGC and gender-affirming care. As we explained in a recent blog, this not only endangers trans and LGBTQ+ youth but ...
Created on 31 January 2025
5. Sahiyo condemns recent executive order conflating female genital mutilation/cutting with gender-affirming care
(News & Blog)
At Sahiyo, we are disheartened and frustrated by the harmful conflation between female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and gender-affirming care made in a recent Executive Order issued by the Trump ...
Created on 31 January 2025
6. Interview with Joanne Golden of the Connecticut Coalition to End FGM/C
(News & Blog)
... out to GLAAD, an LGBTQ advocacy organization, to rephrase the bill on FGC so that it didn't conflate gender-affirming surgery with FGC, and also make the former illegal. Joanne says lawyers provide the ...
Created on 04 September 2024
7. A Conversation On Intersectionality: Sahiyo and The U.S. Network Launch Pilot Project
(News & Blog)
... oppressions and FGC. Topics addressed by the questions include ties between FGC and religion, the conflation of gender-affirming care and FGC, racial stereotyping, and more. The goals of this initiative ...
Created on 18 July 2024
8. That Old Familiar Violence - Reflecting on AAS 2024
(News & Blog)
... to be the victim of a very gendered act while simultaneously wanting to reject being seen as that gender. FGM/C happened to me because someone else decided I was a woman long before I was old enough ...
Created on 18 July 2024
9. PRESS RELEASE: Sahiyo publishes Examining the Current State of Critical Intersections: Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting and Social Oppressions report
(News & Blog)
... similarly, survivors of the #MeToo movement lost autonomy over their bodies through experiences of sexual violation. Queer Gender and Sexuality: the practice of FGM/C itself forces survivors to comform ...
Created on 03 October 2023
10. Proposed legislation in Idaho and Texas discriminates against Transgender Youth and removes protections for children at risk of undergoing FGC
(News & Blog)
... would alter existing policy against FGC to ban gender-affirming care for minors. Gender-affirming care includes social, psychological, behavioral, and medical practices which affirm the gender identity ...
Created on 01 March 2023
11. Troubling Idaho House Bill 71 moves on to Senate
(News & Blog)
... Idaho Legislature has targeted Trans youth, another vulnerable community, by attempting to amend the existing FGM/C law. This amendment would prohibit gender-affirming healthcare from being performed on ...
Created on 24 February 2023
12. Reflecting on A Quiet Violence: Navigating Female Genital Cutting as an LGBTQ+ Survivor
(News & Blog)
... survivors of FGC are underrepresented and silenced in FGC activism, statistics, academic literature, and healthcare settings. Health organizations and anti-FGC advocacy movements frequently use gender ...
Created on 01 August 2022
13. A Quiet Violence: Navigating Female Genital Cutting as an LGBTQ+ Survivor
(News & Blog)
 Register Today: https://bit.ly/AQuietViolence  Female genital cutting (FGC) is a form of gender-based violence that is often undermined by harmful gendered social norms. Whether done for marriageability, ...
Created on 25 May 2022
14. Gender-Affirming Treatments are not Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... legislators in Texas and Idaho are looking to use pre-existing bans on FGC to block transgender youth from receiving life-saving, medically necessary gender-affirming treatments. This is a discriminatory ...
Created on 22 March 2022
15. A Quiet Violence: Navigating Female Genital Cutting as an LGBTQ+ Survivor (2022-06-23)
(Events Calendar/A Quiet Violence: Navigating Female Genital Cutting as an LGBTQ+ Survivor)
... their experiences navigating FGC alongside their gender identity and sexuality – as well as thoughts on how anti-FGC advocacy organizations can become better at meeting the needs of LGBTQ+ survivors.  ...
Created on 29 June 2022
16. Sign the Call to Action: Avoid Harmful Conflation of FGM/C and Gender-Affirming Care
(News & Blog)
On June 10, 2025, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene raised H.R. 3492 in the House Judiciary Committee. This bill seeks to amend the federal FGM/C law to include gender-affirming care for minors, effectively ...
Created on 17 June 2025
17. The U.S. Must Preserve Integrity of Law Against Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting and to Condemn Its Harmful Conflation With Gender-Affirming Care
(News & Blog)
... Marjorie Taylor Greene. The Bill seeks to expand the scope of U.S. Federal law 18 U.S. Code § 116  ‘Female Genital Mutilation,’ to prohibit and criminalize the provision of gender-affirming care for anyone ...
Created on 17 June 2025
18. Sahiyo condemns recent executive order conflating female genital mutilation/cutting with gender-affirming care
(News & Blog)
At Sahiyo, we are disheartened and frustrated by the harmful conflation between female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and gender-affirming care made in a recent Executive Order issued by the Trump ...
Created on 31 January 2025
19. Gender-Affirming Treatments are not Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... legislators in Texas and Idaho are looking to use pre-existing bans on FGC to block transgender youth from receiving life-saving, medically necessary gender-affirming treatments. This is a discriminatory ...
Created on 22 March 2022
20. Proposed legislation in Idaho and Texas discriminates against Transgender Youth and removes protections for children at risk of undergoing FGC
(News & Blog)
... would alter existing policy against FGC to ban gender-affirming care for minors. Gender-affirming care includes social, psychological, behavioral, and medical practices which affirm the gender identity ...
Created on 01 March 2023