"If I Were A Boy" Circumcision Awareness Campaign Goes Viral

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'Las Veags, NV – A couple of days ago, Cynthia Maloney came across the ALS Association’s popular “Ice Bucket Challenge.” ALS stands for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease) in which patients lose all motor function as the disease progresses. “Ice Bucket Challenge” participants record and share videos of themselves dumping buckets filled with ice water on their heads, including the hashtag #icebucketchallenge, to raise awareness of ALS.

Maloney thought that it would be great if the genital autonomy movement came up with something similar to get the word out about children’s rights to bodily autonomy – to protect male, female and intersex children from genital cutting.

Two days later she woke up and read an article about a women’s campaign advocating against sex discrimination and for bodily autonomy. The article included a photo of a young woman holding a sign reading, “#IF I WERE A BOY – I’d be able to make choices about my own body.”

Maloney jumped out of bed, hastily scribbled out a sign, grabbed her roommate and headed outside in her pajamas to have her photo taken.

She posted her photo to a number of intactivist Facebook groups and pages and received a suggestion to start a Facebook page of her own.

Soon Maloney was hastily inviting everyone on her friends list and hundreds agreed to add their pictures. “Since then it just took on a life of it’s own,” she says. As of today there are nearly 100 individual submissions.'