Bioethics

Nontherapeutic, Nonconsensual
Circumcision of Children

Recommended reading

As controversies mount, circumcision policies need a rethink
Buckler, M. Journal of Medical Ethics (2025)

Double Standards in Genital Mutilation
Ahmady, K. European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (2025)

Genital Modifications in Prepubescent Minors: When May Clinicians Ethically Proceed?
Brussels Collaboration on Bodily Integrity. American journal of Bioethics (2024)

Which Children Have Rights? The Child’s Right to Bodily Integrity and Protection Gaps for Children with Intersex Traits under International and National Laws 
DeLaet, DL, Earp, BD, Mills E. Amicus Curiae (2024)

Defending an inclusive right to genital and bodily integrity for children
Townsend, KG. International Journal of Impotence Research (2023)

Medically Unnecessary Genital Cutting and the Rights of the Child: Moving Toward Consensus
Brussels Collaboration on Bodily Integrity. American journal of Bioethics (2019)

N ontherapeutic Circumcision of Minors as an Ethically Problematic Form of Iatrogenic Injury
Svoboda, JS. AMA Journal of Ethics (2017)

Circumcision Is Unethical and Unlawful
Svoboda, JS, Adler, PW, Van Howe, RS. Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics (2017)

Promoting genital autonomy by exploring commonalities between male, female, intersex, and cosmetic female genital cutting
Svoboda, JS. Global Discourse (2013)

Infant circumcision: the last stand for the dead dogma of parental (sovereignal) rights 
Van Howe, RS. Journal of Medical Ethics (2013)

BONUS

Transgender, Intersex, and Gender-Diverse Experiences of (Violated) Genital Autonomy (video)
Presented by T.T. Perry and the Genital Autonomy Collective at the 43rd annual conference of the Gay & Lesbian Medical Association (October 2025)