^Gender Dysphoria: Interdisciplinary Approaches in Clinical Management Routledge, 1992 - Psychology - 155 pages by Walter O. Bockting Page 100: "All of the clinical interventions are done to elleviate the parent's anxiety and guilt so that they can begin to focus on the family problems and not just on the child's symptom. Once this is achieved the child's genital mutilation symptoms disappear."
^The Munchausen Complex: Socialization of Violence and Abuse (Dog Ear Publishing, 2011 - Medical - 268 pages) by Richard L. Matteoli, Pg77 "Another classification system divides child molester into fixated or regressed. Fixated closely represents infant and child genital mutilation of both sexes, with emphasis on male genital mutilation. Regressed most closely represents adult genital mutilation to both sexes depending on culture and current power relations, including improper medicine."
