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Every day in the UK about 100 baby boys will have their bodily integrity and autonomy violated, as part of a ‘non-therapeutic’ circumcision, with zero regulation, training, or safe guarding requirements at all.

None.

No accreditation or registration of practitioners, no system of consent, no requirement for infection control, record keeping, or aftercare, and quite literally any individual is allowed to legally perform them, with no training at all.

These circumcisions do not happen in clinics, but on dinning tables, living room floors, and kitchen surfaces, and can lead to life long health issues–even death.

They are not performed for medical reasons either; but religious, cultural and ritualistic ones, and are not acceptable in any kind of modern, progressive society.

And yes.

I understand the religious context to it, and as a religiously agnostic person myself, I am happy to respect who or what people pray to, or to which religion they pledge themselves.

That is a person’s choice and should be recognised.

But I cannot ignore the fact that so many religions demand to be respected, whilst themselves showing the exact opposite of respect, when it comes to the bodies of the most vulnerable members of society - babies.

The Government have washed their hands of this barbaric practice entirely.

The Crown Prosecution Service, who, although planning to class circumcision as “potential child abuse” earlier this year, have since backed down.

And nobody seems to be willing to speak, or do anything about it.

So if not them, then who will protect these boys?

What do you think?

My entire “game plan” for TheTinMen for the past six years has simply been to create as much content as I can, at the highest possible quality, with the most reliable statistics, and the rest will sort itself out.

Who knows –

Maybe some publisher or newspaper will sponsor me, maybe a brand steps in, or perhaps a rich angel investor with a blank cheque will slide into my DMs…

To be honest I didn’t think too much about it.

My time was spent trying to build a proof of concept; one that shows these issues matter, and that there’s enough of us caring and talking about them to do something about it.

The problem is, as I now realise, these topics are not particularly popular with the mainstream.

And that those in this space with the pockets deep enough to help fund me, splash about in the shallow end of kind slogans and hashtags, and I, neck deep in the mud of ugly advocacy, would only dirty up their shiny shoes by association.

Who knew that talking about men and boys who are raped, and abused, who are betrayed by our government, by our politicians and the charity sector, by our legal and education system, would be so unpopular?

Sadly, ‘men are 41% of abuse victims’ doesn’t look quite so good on a tote bag, does it?

The second reality that is fast dawning on me, is my method of funding this will soon be at an end, and when that ends, so does everything else.

So here I am, humbly cap in hand, asking for help.

And I know.

These conversations should be financed by someone else; by government, by brands, by healthcare providers, and other large charities, but they are not here, you are.

So if you have a shared interest in helping (the newly incorporated) TheTinMen CIC to keep going, to keep creating daily content that is unapologetic, and dives headfirst into the mud of controversy, then please support me at:

Thetinmen.blog/donate
Or
Patreon.com/thetinmen

Thank you
George