Editing Female genital mutilation (section)

====Type I{{anchor|Type I}}====
''Type I'' is "partial or total removal of the [[clitoral glans]] (the external and visible part of the clitoris, which is a sensitive part of the female genitals), and/or the prepuce/[[clitoral hood]] (the fold of skin surrounding the clitoral glans)".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Female genital mutilation|url=https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/female-genital-mutilation|access-date=2021-04-29|website=www.who.int|language=en|archive-date=29 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210129023511/https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/female-genital-mutilation|url-status=live}}</ref> Type Ia{{efn|A diagram in [[#WHO2016|WHO 2016]], copied from {{harvnb|Abdulcadir|Catania|Hindin|Say|2016}}, refers to Type 1a as ''circumcision''.<ref name=WHO2016types>[[#WHO2016|WHO 2016]], [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK368486/box/ch1.box1 Box 1.1 "Types of FGM"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170908222703/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK368486/box/ch1.box1 |date=8 September 2017 }}.</ref>}} involves removal of the [[clitoral hood]] only. This is rarely performed alone.{{efn|WHO (2018): Type 1&nbsp;... the partial or total removal of the clitoris&nbsp;... and in very rare cases, only the prepuce (the fold of skin surrounding the clitoris)."<ref name=WHO2018health/>{{pb}}
WHO (2008): "[There is a] common tendency to describe Type I as removal of the prepuce, whereas this has not been documented as a traditional form of female genital mutilation. However, in some countries, medicalized female genital mutilation can include removal of the prepuce only (Type Ia) (Thabet and Thabet, 2003), but this form appears to be relatively rare (Satti et al., 2006). Almost all known forms of female genital mutilation that remove tissue from the clitoris also cut all or part of the clitoral glans itself."<ref>[[#WHO2008|WHO 2008]], 25. Also see {{harvnb|Toubia|1994}} and {{harvnb|Horowitz|Jackson|Teklemariam|1995}}.</ref>}} The more common procedure is Type Ib ([[clitoridectomy]]), the complete or partial removal of the [[clitoral glans]] (the visible tip of the clitoris) and clitoral hood.<ref name=WHO2014/><ref>[[#WHO2008|WHO 2008]], 4.</ref> The circumciser pulls the clitoral glans with her thumb and index finger and cuts it off.{{efn|Susan Izett and [[Nahid Toubia]] (WHO, 1998): "[T]he clitoris is held between the thumb and index finger, pulled out and amputated with one stroke of a sharp object."<ref name=WHO1998>[[#WHO1998|WHO 1998]].</ref>}}