Last month I submitted an article to the local, radical, university 'zine about gender and children. Basically I was talking about the sexism that young boys encounter and raising my son to be a human, not a male. At the end of the piece I add that circ is mutilation and to stop subjecting our boys to this violence. The latest issue has a letter from one of the collective members (I don't know who it is) and what irks me the most about it was that he was trying to saying that he is circ'd and glad that he is, he's got no problems (he's in his early twenties) and that it is not mutilation. His biggest reason for thinking it's okay is that uncirc'd men choose to be circ'd when they are adults. The rest of his letter bothered me too but I think it best to leave his issues about my gender article alone. I really feel I must submit an article about circumsion for the next issue. I don't want to address a letter to him personally but to give a good informative piece about why it is mutilation and why children shouldn't be circ'd. I was hoping someone here has perhaps written something in the past that I could submit. I don't think I have enough info I could relate and write a good piece with and I really think it's important to have a good anti-circ article. I am not trying to convince him but I think that a lot of people have no real info about circ and it needs to be out there. Can anyone help me? Is anyone willing to share something they've written? I wouldn't address the piece as being from me, I would give credit to whomever wrote it, and sorry, there is no money is this. 
