Commentary
If a surgeon uses her scalpel to cut into and permanently alter the reproductive organs of a young girl in the name of Third World religious and cultural traditions, we call it “female genital mutilation.”
It’s now a felony under a stiff federal law passed with bipartisan support in 2020 and signed by Donald Trump shortly before he left the presidency in January 2021. Anyone who enables this drastic surgery, from performing the procedures personally to transporting the young victims to more accommodating physicians outside the United States, is subject to a five-to-ten-year prison term.
But if a surgeon uses her scalpel to cut into and permanently alter the reproductive organs of a young girl in the name of First World medical ideology, we call it “gender-affirming care.”…