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Lawsuit seeking to ban circumcision as discriminatory genital cutting passes crucial legal test
A judge allowed the lawsuit to proceed, over the state’s objections.
The suit, filed in March on behalf of several circumcised men, alleges they suffered unlawful sex discrimination because Oregon lawmakers banned female genital mutilation of children in 1999 but allowed male genital cutting to continue.
“They suffered stigmatic harm by being treated as lesser than, or be given less legal rights, because of their sex,” Eric Clopper, lead counsel for the circumcised men, said in an interview Monday. He also said they were injured physically.





