Submitted on Friday 27th November 2020
Rejected on Monday 7th December 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Make non-medical virginity testing & hymen restoration illegal in the UK.
Enact specific offences in UK law to protect females against abuse and degrading treatment procedures and the sale of equipment to determine virginity or restoral of the hymen.
These acts reinforce a message that women are the property of men and that their sexual and personal rights are subject to the will of men. A law, banning these acts in the UK would send a strong message to the world that women are equal to men and that belonging to any religion, culture or belief system does not confer rights to abuse women or, more often girls. The government should act for the silent victims of this horrific abuse.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
You may wish to sign this petition calling for a similar action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/562183
Your petition also refers to hymen reconstruction surgery, but this is a medical procedure that might be sought for a number of reasons, and we wouldn't accept a petition calling for medical treatment to be banned.
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