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I'd like to bring circumcision into this discussion.
Any Healthcare provider that performs this on a child should be arrested for child abuse.
There are a number of reasons why one could be medically necessary. I agree that medically unnecessary surgical procedures to infant genitals for purely cosmetic or cultural reasons are pretty unjustifiable, but "any healthcare provider... Should be arrested" is either a bit ill informed, or a wildly extremist position.
If we're banning purely cosmetic or cultural changes to a child's body, are we throwing out ear piercings and back braces and dental work, too? How about haircuts and hair dyes? How about vaccines, since these are now fully included in culture war politics? So much of this seems to boil down to a naturalist attitude towards children. "Just don't change ANYTHING! Changing things is wrong!"
And the fact that its coming from people - like Elon Musk - who paid top dollar for IVF doctors to guarantee his children conform to his consumer preferences (you'll notice he's exclusively had male infant children) is even more obnoxious.
It's very obviously just pot-stirring. Resent your parents for changing you. Resent your children for changing themselves. Medicalize resentment of everyone.
I honestly have no idea where you're going with this. You're comparing carving the skin off a baby's penis for basically no reason, to trimming their hair? Vaccines, back braces, and dental work are not purely cosmetic or cultural. And I have no idea what Elon Musk has to do with it, or where resentment comes into the conversation.
It's entirely possible for most rational people to recognize that a practice was not a great idea, and change moving forward without resentment.
I don't know if this is a strawman, or you're trying to make your case against someone else.