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In a much anticipated update to their 2019 paper, the Brussels Collaboration on Bodily Integrity have published a landmark paper calling for an end to "any nonvoluntary genital cutting or surgery in prepubescent minors, irrespective of the latter’s sex traits or gender assignment, unless urgently necessary to protect their physical health."

The paper's lead author, Brian Earp from the Oxford's Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and the National University of Singapore's Centre for Biomedical Ethics said, "Everyone should have the same right to decide what happens to their own sexual anatomy, no matter their skin colour or the size or shape of their genitals."

Read the press release.

Read the paper.

For further information or interviews: Contact the corresponding author: Brian D. Earp, PhD, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, and Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore: [email protected] (until October 1, 2024) or [email protected] (after October 1, 2024).