Letter: Given his “genital-mutilation surgery” statement, what does Cox think of circumcision?
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Flags at City Hall in Salt Lake City on Nov. 17, 2020, mark Transgender Awareness Week.
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
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