Neonatal nurse

Quote from circumcision discussion on tv.

“Ive been a neonatal nurse for 35 years who has been involved in several tens of thousands of infant circumcisions. Over the last 10-15 years almost all have been plastibels. A competent nurse can usually complete each procedure in under 10 minutes. About 1/3 to ½ don’t cry or have a minor outburst, usually that is because they are strapped down which is something that they are not used to.

All of the complications have been outside of the circumcision, haemophilia etc. Not a single healthy baby has come back with complications in 35 years with the exception of parents who didn’t follow the care advice. Those parents could be easily shown how to care and the problems solved. The dangers are grossly over-exagerated. There’s no data that Ive seen that breaks out complications to exclude those issues to show people the real risk”.

ban-ric:

I am so glad for the men who don’t care that they were circumcised in infancy without consent. Like I am truly happy for you. But don’t you dare tell me that I should be thankful for being circumcised against my will or tell me to get over it. If you wouldn’t tell that to a FGM victim, then don’t tell me that. If you wouldn’t tell a depressed person to just get over their depression, then don’t tell me that either. I am a human and I have emotions and they are valid.

The problem is that these men think their circumcision is the reason behind their depression and so try to ruin it for all others.
Bodily they are fine but the damage happened in their heads because of negative influence.

It’s like when somebody who was vaccinated got influenced by anti-vaccinationists into thinking that the vaccination gave them autism and blame it for every bad grade at school etc.
Would this be a valid reason to ban vaccination?
This and intactivism could be opposed by correct education, since people who don’t know the facts are easy influenced by fringe groups. They “learn” that they were “damaged” and thus should be depressed from now on. This obviously only works for men who were circumcised before they could notice the difference. It’s really tough to find somebody circumcised as adult who is unhappy about it.

“Not thankful for being circumcised against their will“ implies they wouldn’t want it, but the reasons to oppose a free, life-enhancing measure are mostly wrong prejudices.
However, it’s hard to say if it’s better to not wanting something beneficial for the false reasons but being stuck with it or not having it at all, since the mind can be gamebreaker.