'The trauma constantly kept coming back': My FGM story | BBC Africa #TalkItOut
'The trauma constantly kept coming back': My FGM story | BBC Africa #TalkItOut
Leyla underwent FGM at just seven years old. Till this day, the trauma caused by her experience still haunts her even in her adult life.
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Already paying for the wedding…
She can go earn a living and pay for it herself…
Get the guys on board….I ain't paying for that!
Yep I was cut too. It's horrible. What a curse to live like this. I'm a male from America. We do it all the time to our baby boys. What a sick world we live in.
And the cutting of boys don't matter?
All body midifications in children should be forbidden if they are not medically necessary 🙁
I don't understand.
The BBC clearly thinks FGM of children is abhorrent, and should be criminalised. Yet the BBC thinks horrific gender surgery is fine?
I read somewhere years ago that the practice got even more common after aids started spreading. Alot of men in charge felt if they sew these girls up then they are less likely to spread the virus when raped or sold into marriage. Does anyone know anything about this?
I know people with this madness. This is ABUSE
Yes
It's sick I would not want a women to be married to a person who has had this done .The poor children and the sick parents to put there children through this awful practice
You are so brave and well spoken, so much admiration.
They should definitely teach about fgm in school😢 If id have known about fgm i would have known a doctor offering to perform labiaplasty on me as a 15 year old would cause me the same life long injuries and problems. Labiaplasty causes the same damage but is made to seem like a minor, harmless procedure. I had my labia amputated by NHS doctors in the UK. It makes me so angry that young women are raised to not know their own body to the point that they think their anatomy is wrong because they havent been taught it. Then professionals agree to chop it off. Sickening.
Totally unnecessary both female and male cutting. We need to pray to God for guidance and not just listen
to what someone said. They could be very wrong and mislead us.
A man wants a whole woman for sex. These man that say they want a cut woman should do research
how damaging it is to a woman's whole body.
This is a global genocide of women.
Well done girl for being brave enough to speak out about this disgusting operation. So clearly some MEN believe that their GOD made a mistake when he created WOMAN..
Never mind some MEN, assisted by some women, feel confident enough to correct the mistake their GOD made when creating WOMEN. Mutilating a helpless, harmless female child should be considered a sinful crime by EVERYONE.!!!!
Girls' clitoris is a penis and the same as men's. If the clitoris is cut away, the girls no longer feel anything. No more good sex!
Good lord, why would anyone harm a child like that?
yet it’s completely fine to do it to the boys… twisted.
I feel so sorry for legal Hussain
I feel your pain. I'm a man and I was genitally mutilated at a few days old. It sucks. Screw society, they do what they want to do with us a we take it like good little slaves.
as a man I find this evil..as even men are victim
Horroroso…haymujeres que sobreviven y muchas se suicidan.
This is a very painful practice. It should be stop
Fgm deserves condemnation not celebration no to fgm
It’s funny how female circumcision is called mutilation but male circuncision is not.
Wow you're so special. Circumcision affects newborn male infants and it's traumatic and child abuse and causes many mental health issues. So boo hoo poor you everyone bow down to you
Aww boo hoo probably 1 in a million girls that got a circumcision, try being 1 in 3 men 😒
Backwards people and culture no wonder they have to flee to the west n put up with racism 💅💅💅
Thousands of boys go through this every day in America. It's a good thing that they're too young to build trauma at such a young age.
We need to end genital cutting of all infants and minors worldwide. This includes for female and banning male circumcision. Humans are meant to be whole as they come to this earth and they should have the right to their whole body
South America,
It done in Uruguay and 🇵🇾