I may have fixed WebMD!

 I can't prove it, but the timing fits.

In June of 2022, I filed a complaint with WebMD:

This is a screenshot of the article from the last entry in the Wayback Machine (Internet archive):

It appears that the link stopped working and is now redirected to a new link as of October 20, 2022:

Here is the article that the link goes to now:

AND, there is NO mention of "circumcision!!!"

If you would like, here are the links so you can see for yourself:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221020160235/https://www.webmd.com/web/20221020160235/https:/www.webmd.com/men/news/20090325/circumcision-cuts-stds

https://www.webmd.com/sexual-conditions/sexual-health-stds

This just goes to show that you don't have to have a medical degree or have great political power to get things to improve.

Hate to see valuable information get buried

 The website "Sexually Mutilated Child" was created by the late John Erickson.  It became Marilyn Milos' responsibility once he passed, and Intact America's responsibility was once Marilyn joined them.  Intact America did not maintain the site.  

Hopefully, it will continue to be available via the Wayback Machine (web archive):

https://web.archive.org/web/20180809143143/http://sexuallymutilatedchild.org/

civilrights.justice.gov

Today I was pressed to file a complaint with the Department of Justice.  Thank you Eric Anderson for the encouragement (see https://youtu.be/7jfVEWOaWzk?si=xWoSvsbke1Jc7I-a).

If you have followed my blog over the years, you know that I have taken many actions to get law enforcement to do something about genital-cutting rituals performed in the USA.  DOJ is not one that I had considered up to this point and there's a specific website to submit such complaints.

The record number is 488879-BBR.

This is what I stated:

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I do not have the exact time as I do not know how soon after I was born in the hospital that the act was performed. Many years ago I submitted a FOIA request for my medical records and never received them even though I did receive a receipt of the request. 

I do not know whether my mother, Glenda Lou Adkison (maiden name ****), consented to the act. Even if she did, I do not believe that the Bill of Rights permits the act. 

The act entails the removal of part of my genitalia. There was no medical indication requiring this action be taken.

The following existed at the time: 

-the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution (“right of the people to be secure in their persons”), 

-the Eighth Amendment of the US Constitution (“nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted”) 

Since then there have been many developments that would further prevent such an act, but the act continues to occur in government operations. This includes the anti-FGM legislation, CAPTA, and the 14th Amendment. 

For further consideration:

"The right to one's person may be said to be a right of complete immunity; to be let alone." (Union Pacific Railway Co. v. Botsford, 141 U.S. 250, 1891) "The Nuremberg Code... fully informed consent of the subject is an absolute requirement, coercion is absolutely forbidden.

While I am not seeking imprisonment for those involved with my specific case, I AM seeking the end of the ritual in the USA.

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There have only been a few I know who have been brave enough to take actions like this.  Are you?  Or, are you of the belief that nothing will result from doing so?  It is going to take a number of us to do these sorts of things to get change.  Be one of that number.

August 9, 2024 UPDATE: their response is "...we have decided not to take any further action on your complaint."

I'm not surprised. However, if enough men were to do this they would have to take note.

Inventory of my trauma

Taking inventory of all the reasons that I believe I am feeling burnt out.  While I'm sure that those who read this have lived through their own traumas and I'm not interested in a competition, it helps me to write it down.

Sexually mutilated immediately after birth.

Sexually confused mother, likely due to puritanical Christian beliefs. Failed to be a good teacher of how I should interact with women.  

Pedophilic father.  He lied and manipulated to get his way.  He hated hypocrites but proved to be one of the worst hypocrites I have ever known.

I was confused about sexuality.  I saw females in an unhealthy way, which led me to treat them in an unhealthy way.  When I DID have sexual relations, the sexual mutilation that I did not understand at the time exacerbated my problems with relationships.

I was drawn to what I perceived as greatness: I approached and shook hands of Bill Gates.  Today I realize that humans are drawn to be surrounded by what they *perceive* to be great because they fail to see their own greatness.  And, they have yet to see the humanity of the person they perceive to be great.  Today Gates is the largest single contributor to the largest genital mutilation effort the world has ever seen; closely related to the genital mutilation I have come to hate was done to me.

A series of employment situations where I was tossed away when automation, outsourcing, and/or offshoring made me less valuable to the organization. And cases where the organization shrunk or went out of business and a system that provided an ineffective social safety net.

The first wife proved to be unfaithful and unappreciative.

The second wife with undiagnosed bipolar and gastrointestinal issues.

Inlaws who ended up with memory issues at the same time, which led my wife (who's an only child) and I to have to take extraordinary measures to take care of them and the stuff (hoarders) they left behind.

Our two children ended up with a severe auto-immune disease, which led to severe disruption of our lives.

Becoming a father led me down a trail of discovery about genital-cutting rituals and the effects of my own genital mutilation.  A series of traumas from realizations of the many ways I've been affected as well as hearing many stories of grief from others.  To make it worse, discussions with those who believe that the genital-cutting ritual is a good thing go on to gaslight those who have legitimate reasons to feel grief. While I realize that their attempts to gaslight are rooted in their own insecurities I end up seeing trauma all around.

Watching the homeless situation get worse and worse.  And, hearing the stories of people who ended up homeless as my wife and I work to help.

Numerous cases of theft.

Involvement in efforts to make the world a better place where some of the people in the efforts hinder the efforts due to selfish motives. 

Being a property manager of low-income housing where the system fails both the property owner and the tenant.  Top it off with being paid so low that my family is considered low-income.