German court bans circumcision

[August]

Originally Posted by AngusJS

Don't force a permanent change in your child's body to be in line with your ideology, when you know that he might wish that he had been able to choose for himself, rather than have it imposed upon him.

This is so blindingly obvious, but yet again religion keeps creating problems like this which otherwise would have been solved and forgotten ages ago.

And yet most atheists, at least the ones on this board, seem to have absolutely no problem with drugging a child to delay the onset of puberty in order to provide more time to convince it that the gender they were born with is somehow wrong and should be changed, by surgery, before they reach adulthood. Others have no problem with piercing the ears of infants but I guess it all depends on which ideology you subscribe to.

Personally I have no problem with the procedure. Had it done to me soon after I was born and believe me it's no big deal.