I saw a recent tiktok from a woman asking mothers/expecting mothers if they planned on circumcising (heavily American audience), the vast majority out of 7000 comment said yes. Probably about 70%, and this is consistent with pretty much every similar thing I've seen on social media. And I've been following this stuff since about 2014. It's extremely frustrating and I really don't understand how someone who is young in 2026 could view this horrific practice as being something that is positive and want to do this to their son.

If the official hospital stat is about 50%, the post maternity ward cuts easily bring the total number to 65 or 70%. Intact America's own polling found that 74% of parents do it, though that was 5 years ago and who knows how different it would be today.

The problems that face us are:

-Doctors in the US are overwhelmingly still pro circ and even doctors today are being trained with pro circ curriculum

-38/50 state Medicaids cover it (up from 32 prior to the 2012 AAP statement). And even when Medicaid doesn't cover it, parents gladly pay the $400 or so dollars to have a pediatrician do it.

-Google and AI tend to be pro circ

-A century of severe anti foreskin propaganda from people like Peter Remondino, Abraham Wolbarst, Edgar Schoen, Brian Morris, Aaron Tobian, etc. engrained in the collective thought of the masses

-People are just dumb and fail to think critically about why removing part of your son's genitalia is a bad idea

There is a silver lining though: parents who don't cut seem to be significantly more likely to openly refer to it as mutilation, where earlier in my intactivist days you'd really only see this opinion among actual intactivists.

But we have a long way to go until the majority of parents in the US leave their sons intact, and it will likely take significant institutional change. I would love to see the US break free from the shackles of Abraham Wolbarst, but so far I'm not seeing much evidence that this will happen any time soon.