A coalition coordinated by the National Secular Society has urged Parliament’s health and social care committee to launch an inquiry into the non-therapeutic circumcision of boys. The call came in a letter from 14 signatories including the National Secular Society, circumcision support charity 15 Square, doctors, and families harmed by non-therapeutic circumcision. Liberal Democrat peer Paul Scriven and human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell also signed. The letter noted there is no legal requirement that circumcisers be medically trained, and non-medical circumcisers are entirely unregulated. “This arrangement is endangering the health and lives of children”, it said. It said non-therapeutic circumcision is “ethically and legally anomalous” in that “the youngest and most vulnerable are afforded the fewest protections”. Circumcising an adult without his consent would constitute grievous bodily harm. British Medical Association (BMA) guidance states: “The BMA cannot envisage a situation in which it is ethically acceptable to circumcise a child who refuses the procedure, irrespective of the parents’ wishes.” Therefore, it is those youngest children, who “have no voice and who cannot consent, who are …