Protest last weekend in Denver at an American academy of pediatrics convention

I'm a freshman in college. I recently began a general psychology course and have been going to all lectures. As part of the course, topics of sexuality and sexual behavior/disorders exist. My professor eventually reached a discussion regarding circumcision. I was just in the back of the lecture hall, nodding my head at everything.

To keep things short, he just said that circumcision is such a strange thing that we do. I mean, imagine a baby being born and the first thought that comes to mind is to chop off a part of their penis. He brought up some articles in conjunction with the American Health Association and bolded the important parts of the article. He stated that it's all money driven, and that even the AHA agrees that the benefits are not worthwhile (this is the bolded part of text he brought up). He brought up the statistics and showed the very poor correlations between HIV/disease prevention and circumcisions.

I've been off reddit focusing on my restoration, my mental health, and my physical improvements in my life. I just felt the need to bring this up, as it made me so happy to see my professor speak in a lecture hall with over 150 people in the class. It may have very well changed the perspectives of some of the students there, and I know he will continue to bring up the topic given that it's in the current curriculum. I likely will give him a thank you at the end of the course. Just wanted to share. <3

I have two sons, now ages 10 and 11. The younger one and I were out in our backyard pool swimming and talking. I don't know how it came up but I told him about circumcision. I've been a raving intactivist since I was pregnant with my first one. They are both intact. I guess I wanted to warn him about locker room stuff since they are getting that age. I wanted him to know in advance what it was and why some boys look one way and he looks how he looks and to never ever let anyone make him feel ashamed. He of course asked what cicumcision was and why people do it. I told him all about it and he started sobbing that people would do that to a little baby. He thanked me profusely for protecting him. I told him his dad is the real rock star. His dad is cut but was able to put that aside for the sake of his boys.

Anyway, I just wanted to share. It was a very sweet and validating moment. It's all worth it in the end. Protect your boys.

My son was just born a few days ago and they only asked us once if we wanted them to circumcise him, we said no.

20 years ago my previous son was born and they had asked us 6 times and tried to convince us that having him circumcised would give him zero chance of aids or stds but this time they let us alone.

This is central Texas. So in 20 years things have improved here. They respected our choice now but 20 years ago they tried to convince us.