At the age of 20, I found out that part of my genitals had been cut when I was a baby. A relative mentioned it casually as he/she? though it was not a big deal. No one could tell me exactly what was done, how it was done, or why. More importantly, no one seemed to think it mattered. That silence is part of the problem.
Female Genital Cutting (FGC) is rarely di...