YouTube Informational Shorts
A curated collection of short videos to help you learn and share information about bodily autonomy and genital integrity.
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Routine describes how frequently something happens. It doesn't tell you whether it's necessary.
A permanent choice about a newborn is presented during an exhausting moment of a parent's life.
Medical procedures deserve scrutinynot just benefits and risks, but also their systems.
The procedure happens in infancy. The anatomical change lasts a lifetime.
Medicine has changed its mind before. Longstanding practices are not automatically the best.
Imagine removing a healthy body part at birth because it might develop a problem decades later.
Just because a procedure is common doesn't mean it's medically necessary.
Your body, your choice raises an important question: When does bodily autonomy begin?
Calling circumcision parental choice overlooks the person who permanently lives with the result.
We teach young people that consent matters.
A medical setting can make a procedure feel medically necessary.
Different laws. Similar questions about bodily integrity.
Some men know more about their next phone than they were ever taught about their own anatomy.
Men are allowed to have opinions about what happened to their own bodies.
Something being common doesnt automatically make it necessary.
Questioning circumcision doesnt require blaming the generation before you.
I turned out fine doesnt answer the question of consent.
Car seats. Strollers. Cribs. Parents spend weeks researching purchases their baby will outgrow.
Routine can make a permanent procedure sound ordinary.
Clean. Common. Routine.
Before circumcision, ask a simple question: What healthy tissue is being removed, and why?
A checkbox on a hospital form can make a permanent procedure feel routine.
A healthy newborn with no urgent medical problem shouldnt need surgery by default.
The foreskin isn't just thereit has a purpose.
Calling something routine doesnt change what physically happens.
Minutes can create a change that lasts an entire lifetime.
The more you learn about the foreskin, the harder it becomes to dismiss it as extra skin.
Why call a natural body uncircumcised instead of intact?
Waiting doesnt eliminate a choice. It preserves it.
A consent form is only as good as the information behind it.
Laws dont just reflect culturethey can help change it.
Equal protection isnt just a legal phrase. It determines whose rights the law actually protects.
Equal protection should mean exactly that: equal protection.
Leaving a healthy child intact is a choice too.
The foreskin isnt separate from sexual functionits part of sexual anatomy.
Pain doesnt become meaningless because someone wont remember it.
Calling circumcision routine can make a permanent procedure sound insignificant.
The foreskin develops along with the rest of the body.
Have you ever heard of the frenulum?
Once healthy tissue is removed, theres no going back.
Every healthy baby boy is born with a foreskin.
Biology doesn't change because culture does.
Have you ever wondered what happens to removed foreskins?
Most parents are never taught what the foreskin actually does.
One of the biggest myths about the foreskin is that it's "dirty."
The United States is one of few developed countries where routine infant circumcision is common.
Colorado is now at the center of the conversation.
The foreskin isn't there for appearance.
A movement became two constitutional challenges.
One lawsuit could change history.
Healthy babies aren't born needing genital surgery.
The conversation around circumcision is changing.
The foreskin contains specialized fine-touch receptors.
Nature already had a solution.
