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  "path": "/threads/uk-at-least-how-are-circumcisions-without-a-medical-licence-medical-reasoning-still-legal.2633778/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-07T11:17:27.000Z",
  "site": "https://forums.anandtech.com",
  "tags": [
    "Politics and News",
    "NHS doctor struck off over botched circumcision still performing operation"
  ],
  "textContent": "###   NHS doctor struck off over botched circumcision still performing operation \n\n‘Catastrophic failure of safeguarding’ highlighted by fact Zuber Bux’s lay practice is legal, campaigners say\n\nwww.theguardian.com\n\n\nThe mind boggles. Conservatives are up in arms about licensed medical professionals pursuing valid medical treatments for transpeople, but it's A-OK for even a layperson to go around chopping off foreskins.\n\n(yes, the question I posed in the thread title is rhetorical... cue Fiddler On The Roof 'tradition!')",
  "title": "(UK, at least) how are circumcisions without a medical licence + medical reasoning still legal?"
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