The alleged medical advantages of circumcising male children are dubious at best, and most doctors these days say it has no health benefit. So why do we keep doing it?

Female genital mutilation is more extreme in the damage caused, but taking a razor to a baby's genitals for cosmetic purposes is barbaric, even if it is a religious tradition, if there are maybe sorta some health benefits maybe, if you want the son to look like his dad, etc.

Call it what you want, justify it how you want. It's still hacking off a piece of a baby. It differs from the FGM only in degree (and of course geography).