With a one minute look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

February 6 is the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation or FGM.

The United Nations, the World Health Organization, and countries around the world will join this official recognition.

21 years ago, African political leaders first declared FGM a global crisis.

And eight years ago, President Obama declared an international day of zero tolerance saying,

quote, there's no reason young girls should suffer FGM.

Just because it's a tradition in some places does not make it right.

While President Obama's moral clarity then was important,

and when Congress outlawed FGM back in 1996,

they declared that harming a female in this way

could not be legally defended by either tradition or by standard practice.

Well today a different form of standard practice threatens vulnerable girls both within and

outside the US.

Puberty blockers and surgical interventions go by the misleading label of gender-affirming

care, but it's every bit as evil and harmful as FGM.

And until it's stopped, this day of zero tolerance will ring a bit hollow.

For the Coulson Center, I'm John Stone Street.