Gov. Spencer Cox is quoted in The Tribune as being opposed to “genital-mutilation surgery” of transgender youth. I assume that such surgery and other treatments rarely occur without the informed consent of the teenage youth and one or both of the youth’s parents.
If my assumption is correct, I wonder if Cox considers circumcision of a male infant unable to give his informed consent as a victim of “genital-mutilation surgery.”
William Vogel, Salt Lake City