Closed petition Make virginity testing illegal

Pass legislation to criminalise these pseudo-scientific procedures. Any clinician who carries one out to be struck off.

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These procedures are unscientific, humiliating, barbaric and do not work. They are a violation of human rights. The UK cannot claim to be a developed country and still allow this medieval nonsense to continue

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Date closed 4 June 2021
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