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21. 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
22. 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
23. 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
24. 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
25. 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
26. 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
27. 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
28. 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
29. 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
30. gender affirming care
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gender affirming care
Created on 17 June 2025
31. The U.S. Must Preserve Integrity of Law Against Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting and to Condemn Its Harmful Conflation With Gender-Affirming Care
(Article tagged with: gender affirming care)
... 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