Female genital mutilation (FGM) is regarded as a human rights violation and a form of violence and discrimination against girls and women. However, despite a global push to end the practice, it still happens in some African countries, including Nigeria. Watch what Nigerian teens told our GirlZOffMute teen reporter, Angel Unigwe, what they think of FGM. What's your opinion on FGM?#GirlZOffMute
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00:00There is the practice of female genital mutilation. What do you think about this?
00:09Female genital mutilation is a very bad idea because it affects these girls emotionally
00:16because it traumatizes them. They can also get infected so it actually spoils them emotionally.
00:23I feel this practice should be abolished because it's a very painful thing to go through
00:28and any young female child that goes through this is traumatized for life.
00:31So I feel this practice should be cancelled. It shouldn't happen anymore.
00:34The female genital mutilation, I see it like it takes away these women's confidence.
00:41They won't even be able to do things themselves because of what they've gone through.
00:47So women that go through these things, even through this process,
00:53there will still be some men that will want to take advantage of them even through those things.
00:58And they will even want to give them into early marriage after those type of things.
01:03So I see it like it's not healthy and it's not acceptable at all.
01:06It's a bad idea because those females go through a lot of pain, excruciating pain
01:12when they cut off their skin parts, their private parts most especially
01:16because they use unsterilized tools, tools that are not clean, tools that in fact
01:21many other people have used before so they get through infection.
01:24They can even die because of that and because of the pain so they could die.
01:27So that's really bad. It's really, really wrong.