Female genital mutilation, the ritualistic cutting or removal of external female genitalia that is associated with Islamic religious beliefs or cultural practice, is almost universally denounced in ...

As a young child Aïssa could not understand how she could conjure up such horrific images. No one had ever explained to Aïssa what her parents had allowed to take place. “All I could remember was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here’s one of the more confusing anomalies in state laws — and in liberal woke-think. Forty-one states have laws prohibiting a ...

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul el Sayed compared gender transition surgery for minors to circumcision, creating a new controversy as Democrats struggle to clarify their stance on ...

We know how to stop the atrocities in Sudan. There’s just too little interest in doing so. By Nicholas Kristof Ghada Hatem-Gantzer, a French doctor, founded a one-stop shop to treat female victims of ...

Last week, Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky used part of his allotted time during the Senate confirmation hearing for Dr. Rachel Levine, President Joe Biden's pick for assistant secretary of ...

Female circumcision is so harmful that it is quite clear that society would be better off without this kind of practice, but so far progress has been slow. The economist Eliana La Ferrara is ...