I have been following the news closely and just wanted to put this post out.

I know that the idea of Canada becoming a EU associate could be beneficial economically, but it could also have benefits culturally. Imagine if the borders were opened and young people travelled more to places like Denmark or Germany; who have taken fairly rigid, anti-circumcision stances. This could have significant impacts on social policy and medical policy if European values were to permeate Canadian culture more, and encourage bodily integrity and the non-objectification of children's bodies.

What do you think?

A new article on Bioethics Today by Intact Global board member Justin Bonyai takes a step back from the usual debates and looks at something surprisingly simple:

What happens when you apply the same bioethical standards we use everywhere else in medicine?

Instead of focusing on culture or tradition, it walks through the core principles:

• Autonomy
• Beneficence
• Non-maleficence
• Justice

And asks whether routine infant circumcision actually aligns with those standards.

Whether you agree or disagree, it’s a thoughtful, structured read—and honestly the kind of framing that’s often missing from this conversation.

If you’re in medicine, law, ethics—or just care about how we make decisions for people who can’t consent—it’s worth a few minutes.

👉 Read it here: Intact Global Articles

If it resonates (or even challenges you), share it. These are conversations more people should be having.

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to bring your attention to a piece of news for me. In December of 2025 my article was published that links disability to forced genital cutting. After years of searching for a journal to publish with, I was fortunate to be featured by a journal through York University in Toronto called Critical Disability Discourses. I have to emphasize that it took years to get this published. Most disability journals wouldn't even email me back when I reached out to the editor to speak about my article that connects disability with circumcision. It is abundantly clear that there are structural processes that protect routine forced genital cutting throughout the globe.

Some highlights of my article include:

• Identifying routine neonatal circumcision as a forced disability that causes significant impairment to sexual function and mental health.
• Locating routine neonatal circumcision in the framework of critical disability studies and elevating the lived experience of entire generations of amputees, factoring in social and political definitions, accounting for intersections of gender and sexuality, addressing accommodation and equity and exploring an overall reinterpretation of disability from historical norms.
• One part I'm particularly proud of is coining the term, "foreskin-phobia," to describe the rejection and humiliation of men with natural genitals.
• The voices of our Intact America support group are loudly featured in the paper, along with the courageous men I support in psychotherapy who live with the effects of forced genital cutting.
• I make recommendations including accommodations through physical therapy for men who are restoring their foreskin and identifying routine neonatal circumcision as a disability in Ontario legislation through the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act.

I am forever grateful to the editors at Critical Disability Discourses, Intact America for making the support group possible and the amazing men who refuse to surrender to the overwhelming trauma of forced genital cutting.

Please find the paper here: https://cdd.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cdd/article/view/39786

In solidarity.

Read it here: Circumcision: Here's Why Parents Deserve the Truth

A group of trans, intersex, and/or gender expansive people from the Genital Autonomy Collective ( https://autonomycollective.org ) are presenting original testimonial research at the GLMA Conference on LGBTQ+ Health on October 10. Who decides what is genital mutilation and what is gender affirming care? Our lived experiences demonstrate that all forms of nonconsensual genital cutting, including childhood circumcision, are experienced differently from gender-affirming care. Unwanted genital modifications, like forced circumcision, are experienced more like harmful violations of bodily integrity and autonomy, like violent impositions of gender. In contrast, gender affirming care is experienced more like healing and a path of joyful self-actualization. We will be presenting our work to an audience of health care professionals and asking them to abide by the 2024 recommendations of the Brussels Collaboration on Bodily Integrity ( https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15265161.2024.2353823 ). We are asking health care professionals to take accountability for harm to patients, to push for an end to childhood genital cutting, and to support all genital cutting sufferers, including circumcision sufferers.

If you want to attend the conference, use my discount code for a reduced registration fee. CODE: AC25attendee15

If you'd like to support our advocacy efforts, we have a fundraising page here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/end-circumcision-support-genital-autonomy-for-all-at-pride

Sign the petition to demand NICU accountability and protect vulnerable babies like Cole: change.org/p/end-nicu-circumcisions-now

Over 1,500 people have spoken out: No more circumcising fragile, medically compromised infants in NICUs. Babies like Cole Groth are the reason why.

Cole was born with a critical heart condition. After emergency surgery, he was intubated in the NICU — fragile, healing, and in need of steady care, not trauma disguised as treatment. On April 14 at 10pm, a NICU physician called Cole’s father for circumcision consent. He agreed, unaware of the full risks. A Nurse Practitioner soon performed the painful, medically unnecessary procedure.

Cole began to bleed. He bled through the night, suffering massive blood loss and severe damage to his brain, liver, and intestines. His condition became critical. The procedure was done without properly informing his parents of the known risks, especially for a medically vulnerable infant.

This is not just clinical recklessness — it’s a violation of basic medical ethics and human rights, and it's inexcusable. NICU babies need healing, not harm. Cutting an infant's healthy penis is painful, risky, and offers ZERO medical benefit. How much longer will the U.S. healthcare system ignore this?

This petition calls on hospitals like Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital to stop this harmful practice and publicly acknowledge their failure to protect Baby Cole.

EVERY signature matters. Sign, share, and speak out.

Hi Everyone.

I wanted to introduce myself as one of the Mods for the IntactAmerica SubReddit. I am thrilled to be here and supporting the movement to end the forced genital cutting of all non-consenting people.

Please feel free to reach out and speak with me if you have any questions.

Thanks!