> I find infant circumcision little different from head-binding or foot-binding—but that is a rather unpopular opinion here in the US.
Circumcision is a lightning rod issue partly because it is often performed for religious reasons.
One thing that's often overlooked when it's discussed, though: if the child grows up to be a woman (ie, transgender woman assigned male at birth), being circumcised makes gender reassignment surgery more complicated and difficult. It's still possible, but the doctors have less to work with for reconstruction.
Circumcision is a lightning rod issue partly because it is often performed for religious reasons.
One thing that's often overlooked when it's discussed, though: if the child grows up to be a woman (ie, transgender woman assigned male at birth), being circumcised makes gender reassignment surgery more complicated and difficult. It's still possible, but the doctors have less to work with for reconstruction.