If it's an issue of procedure and not consent, then why can women over 18 get labiaplasty? Why does it remain legal when FGM on minor girls is banned? I'm not sure that labiaplasty is even banned for minor girls.

"Female genital cosmetic surgery

  1. Female genital cosmetic surgery (FGCS) is an increasingly popular form of surgery. For example, there has been a fivefold increase in the number of labiaplasty procedures—the most common form of FGCS—in the last 10 years. However, FORWARD told us such procedures are often very similar to Type 1 and Type 2 FGM, and can result in comparable health complications such as reduced sensation, infection and bleeding, and wound dehiscence.[155] FGCS is mainly performed in the private sector, and so is not subject to the same level of regulation or monitoring as in the NHS. Both ACPO and the Metropolitan Police argued that at present there is a perceived "double standard" whereby there is a focus on practising black and ethnic minority communities, whilst in the wider community the 'designer vagina' private medical industry is flourishing.[156]

  2. Furthermore, section 1 of the 2003 Act allows for "a surgical operation on a girl which is necessary for her physical or mental health", which the Mayor of London's Harmful Practices Taskforce argued creates a loophole that potentially allows medical practitioners in the private cosmetic industry to conduct FGM with impunity.[157] FORWARD pointed to a recent position paper by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the British Society for Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology, which recommended that FGCS should not be carried out on girls under the age of 18. "

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