Tag: Genital piercings/FGM
Adult genital piercings are still reported as FGM
Bríd Hehir
Published 3 July 2023
Contrary to popular opinion, women who’ve had genital piercings, voluntarily, as adults, in the UK, are reported by the NHS to have undergone FGM.
Read MoreGenital piercings are the UK’s ‘FGM’
Bríd Hehir
Published 1 August 2019
Sensationalist headlines that followed the publication of official NHS FGM data
Read MoreNewborns incorrectly reported as having undergone ‘FGM’ in England
Bríd Hehir
Published 9 March 2018
‘FGM’: data errors, hype and double standards
Read MoreRecent Posts
- Will Ireland pay a heavy price for buying into the FGM moral panic?
- Do systems that claim to save us end up doing harm?
- Is Government funding to combat FGM a useful use of UK taxpayers money?
- Zainab Nur: ‘Revictimization of Affected Women by the Anti-FGM Campaign’
- Lessons in challenging FGM Court Orders



