UK Regulation to Label Women With Vagina Piercings Victims of ‘Genital Mutilation’

‘A UK health authority plans to equate women who consented to vagina piercings to victims of “female genital mutilation,” a controversial effort that could turn thousands of professional body piercers into criminals overnight.

Next month, the Department of Health says it will implement new National Health Service standards on women who paid to have their labia or clitoris cosmetically altered, labeling them as having undergone a “harmful procedure” in accordance with rules outlined by the World Health Organization.

“While there are challenges in this area and adult women may have genital piercings, in some communities girls are forced to have them,” a Department of Health spokesperson told the London Evening Standard.’

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