Nancy and Gertrude are Kenyan girls about to face this brutal passage to womanhood. What this film does is to show how custom – even when violent and dangerous – embeds itself in social expectations. These girls are not considered eligible by prospective husbands until they have been cut; their parents need the income from a dowry to shore up precarious family finances. Standing out against such powerful conventions is difficult, dangerous, and costs money.

'I will never be cut': Kenyan girls fight back against genital mutilation | Guardian Investigations - YouTube

This so called custom should never be accepted, it is pathetic.

Female Genital Mutilation still happens in Singapore.