Khadija Gbla: My mother’s strange definition of empowerment TED

譯者: Yukun Chen 審譯者: Adrienne Lin

Hi.

大家好。

Today I'm going to share my personal journey

今天我想分享的親身經歷

with female genital mutilation, FGM.

是關於女性外陰殘割（FGM）。

Feel free to cry, laugh, cross your legs,

你們可以隨意哭、笑、翹腳

or do anything your body feels like doing.

或做一些你覺得舒服的事，

I'm not going to name the things your body does.

我不會將你們身體會做的事 一項一項地列出來。

I was born in Sierra Leone.

我在獅子山共和國出生。

Did anybody watch "Blood Diamond"?

有人看過電影《血鑽石》嗎？

If you have any thoughts --

你要是現在已經萌生一些想法...

I don't have any diamonds on me, by the way.

我順帶一提，我身上並沒有任何鑽石。

If you have heard of Ebola, well, that's in Sierra Leone as well.

如果你有聽過伊波拉病毒，

獅子山也有伊波拉個案。

I don't have Ebola. You're all safe.

我沒有攜帶伊波拉病毒， 你們都很安全，

Don't rush to the door.

不要忙著往門那裡跑。

Be seated. You're fine. I was checked before I got here.

坐下來。你們沒事。 我來之前已經被檢查過了。

My grandfather had three wives.

我的祖父有三個妻子。

Don't ask me why a man needs more than one wife.

不要問我為甚麼 男人需要超過一個妻子。

Men, do you need more than one wife?

男士們，你們需要多於一個妻子嗎？

I don't think so. There you go.

我不這麼認為。

就是這樣。

He was looking for a heart attack, that's what I say.

他是在自找心臟病，我是這麼認為的。

Oh yeah, he was.

噢，是的，他真的是自找麻煩。

When I was three, war broke out in Sierra Leone in 1991.

1991年，在我三歲的時候，

獅子山爆發了一場戰爭。

I remember literally going to bed one night, everything was good.

我清楚地記得有一晚睡覺時，

甚麼事都沒發生。

The next day, I woke up,

翌日，我醒過來的時候，

bombs were dropping everywhere,

到處都是從天擲下的炸彈，

and people were trying to kill me and my family.

有些人還試圖殺害我和我的家人。

We escaped the war and ended up in Gambia, in West Africa.

我們逃離戰爭， 抵達西非的甘比亞。

Ebola is there as well. Stay away from it.

那裡也有伊波拉病毒，不要去。

While we were there as refugees,

我們在那裡是難民，

we didn't know what was going to become of us.

我們不知道甚麼事 會降臨到我們的身上。

My mom applied for refugee status.

我媽媽申請了難民身份，

She's a wonderful, smart woman, that one,

在這件事情上， 她是個了不起又聰明的女人。

and we were lucky.

我們很幸運，

Australia said, we will take you in.

澳洲接納了我們。

Good job, Aussies.

多虧你們了，澳洲人。

Before we were meant to travel,

在我們遠走他鄉之前，

my mom came home one day, and said,

媽媽有一天回到家說：

"We're going on a little holiday, a little trip."

「我們去度假，一個小小的旅行。」

She put us in a car,

她把我們帶上車，

and we drove for hours and ended up in a bush

我們開了幾小時的車，

in a remote area in Gambia.

到達一個位於甘比亞偏遠地區的灌木林。

In this bush, we found two huts.

叢林裡，我們找到了兩間小棚屋。

An old lady came towards us.

一個老婦人迎我們而來，

She was ethnic-looking, very old.

她看來是很民族的感覺，年紀很大。

She had a chat with my mom, and went back.

她跟媽媽談了一會就回去了

Then she came back and walked away from us into a second hut.

然後她又走回來，走進第二間小棚屋

I'm standing there thinking,

我站在那兒，不禁想：

"This is very confusing. I don't know what's going on."

「真叫人摸不著頭腦，到底發生甚麼事。」

The next thing I knew,

接下來我記得

my mom took me into this hut.

媽媽會帶我走入這間棚屋

She took my clothes off,

她把我的衣服脫掉

and then she pinned me down on the floor.

然後把我壓在地上

I struggled and tried to get her off me, but I couldn't.

我拼命掙扎，想要把她推開， 但都無補於事

Then the old lady came towards me with a rusty-looking knife,

那個老女人走上前，拿著一把生鏽的刀

one of the sharp knives,

那種鋒利的、褐鏽色

orange-looking, has never seen water or sunlight before.

從不見天日或水的刀

I thought she was going to slaughter me,

我以為她想殺我

but she didn't.

但她沒有

She slowly slid down my body

她的手缓慢地滑過我的身軀

and ended up where my vagina is.

停在了陰道處

She took hold of what I now know to be my clitoris,

她拿捏住我的下體， 我後來才知道那是陰蒂

she took that rusty knife, and started cutting away, inch by inch.

她用那把生鏽的刀開始一寸一寸地割下

I screamed, I cried,

我歇斯底里地哭叫

and asked my mom to get off me so this pain will stop,

懇求媽媽放我下來，結束這痛苦

but all she did was say, "Be quiet."

但她卻一直叫我「不要吵」

This old lady sawed away at my flesh for what felt like forever,

這老女人割下我的肉， 整個過程感覺永遠沒有結束

and then when she was done,

完事之後

she threw that piece of flesh across the floor

她把那塊肉扔在地上

as if it was the most disgusting thing she's ever touched.

彷彿那是她碰過最噁心的東西

They both got off me, and left me there bleeding,

她們倆從我身上走開

crying, and confused as to what just happened.

把我獨自留在那裡淌血、痛哭、茫然。我在想“剛剛發生了什麼”

We never talked about this again.

從此我們再沒有提過這件事

Very soon, we found that we were coming to Australia,

不久，我們就起行到澳洲

and this is when you had the Sydney Olympics at the time,

那時候正在舉辦雪梨奧運會

and people said we were going to the end of the world,

人們說我們將要去世界的盡頭

there was nowhere else to go after Australia.

澳洲再往外，就沒有任何東西了

Yeah, that comforted us a bit.

是的，這的確讓我們感到些許寬慰（反話）

It took us three days to get here.

我們花了三天才來到這裡

We went to Senegal, then France, and then Singapore.

我們途經塞内加爾、法國、 然後到新加坡

We went to the bathroom to wash our hands.

我们去洗手間洗手

We spent 15 minutes opening the tap like this.

花了十五分鐘都無法把水龍頭弄開

Then somebody came in,

之後有人進來

slid their hand under and water came out,

把手放到了（水龍頭）下面，水就出來了

and we thought, is this what we're in for?

我们當時在想， 這是我们將要生活的地方嗎？

Like, seriously.

真的，不可思議

We got to Adelaide, small place,

我們到達了阿德萊德，小地方

where literally they dumped us in Adelaide, that's what I would say.

他們就把我們扔在了阿德萊德， 真的可以說是，

They dumped us there.

把我們“扔”在了那裡。

We were very grateful.

我們仍然很感激。

We settled and we liked it.

我們安置了下來，並且喜歡那裡。

We were like, "We're home, we're here."

對我們來說是，“我們到家了，就在這裡”

Then somebody took us to Rundle Mall.

然後有人帶我們去朗德爾購物中心。

Adelaide has only one mall.

阿德萊德只有一個購物中心。

It's this small place.

就是這麼小的地方。

And we saw a lot of Asian people.

我們看到很多亞洲人。

My mom said all of a sudden, panicking,

我媽突然很慌張地說，

"You brought us to the wrong place. You must take us back to Australia."

“你把我們帶到錯的地方了。 你必須帶我們回澳大利亞。”

Yeah. It had to be explained to her that there were a lot of Asians in Australia

對啊，我們還得向她解釋 在澳大利亞有很多亞洲人

and we were in the right place.

我們在對的地方。

So fine, it's all good.

好吧，所有事情都到位了。

My mom then had this brilliant idea

我媽然後有了這個很不錯的主意

that I should go to a girls school because they were less racist.

我必須去女子學校， 因為他們會比較沒有種族主義。

I don't know where she read that publication. (Laughter)

我不知道她在哪裡讀到這個刊物。（笑）

Never found evidence of it to this day.

至今從來沒有發現這個刊物的痕跡

Six hundred white kids, and I was the only black child there.

600個白人小朋友，而我是唯一的黑人小朋友。

No, I was the only person with a bit of a color on me.

不對，我是唯一的皮膚有顏色的小朋友。

Let me say that. Chocolate color.

讓我說吧，巧克力的顏色。

There were no Asians, no indigenous.

沒有亞洲人，沒有原著民。

All we had was some tan girls,

我們有的就是幾個曬得比較黑的女孩子，

girls who felt the need to be under the sun.

這些女孩子覺得必須要曬太陽。

It wasn't the same as my chocolate, though. Not the same.

不過（她們的顏色）和我的巧克力色不同， 不是一樣的。

Settling in Australia was quite hard,

在澳大利亞安家（對我來說）並不容易，

but it became harder when I started volunteering for an organization

而在我開始在某個組織當志工後，就更加困難了

called Women's Health Statewide,

這個組織叫做“全洲婦女健康“

and I joined their female genital mutilation program

我參加了他們的”女性外陰殘割“的計劃

without any awareness of what this program was actually about,

完全不知道這個計劃是做什麼的，

or that it related to me in any way.

也不知這個就和我自己有關。

I spent months educating nurses and doctors

我花數月的時間教育護士和醫生

about what female genital mutilation was

有關什麼是“女性外陰殘割”

and where it was practiced:

以及在哪裡有這樣的情況：

Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and now, Australia and London and America,

如非洲，中東，亞洲， 而現在，在澳大利亞，倫敦和美國。

because, as we all know, we live in a multicultural society,

因為，如我們所知， 我們生活在一個多元文化的社會，

and people who come from those backgrounds come with their culture,

而從這些文化背景來的人們也帶來了他們的文化，

and sometimes they have cultural practices that we may not agree with,

有時候，他們有一些文化的做法， 並不是我們所認同的，

but they continue to practice them.

但是他們會繼續實行。

One day, I was looking at the chart

有一天，我正在看一個不同

of the different types of female genital mutilation,

女性外陰殘割類型的表格，

FGM, I will just say FGM for short.

FGM，我就簡稱女性外陰殘割為FGM好了

Type I is when they cut off the hood.

類型一是把（陰蒂上方）的皮割掉

Type II is when they cut off the whole clitoris

類型二是把整個陰蒂割掉

and some of your labia majora, or your outer lips,

以及部分的外陰唇，

and Type III is when they cut off the whole clitoris

類別三是把整個陰蒂割掉

and then they sew you up

然後把那裡縫起來

so you only have a little hole to pee and have your period.

僅剩一個小出口尿尿和來月經。

My eyes went onto Type II.

我的眼睛看著類型二。

Before all of this, I pretty much had amnesia.

在此之前，我幾乎患了失憶症。

I was in so much shock and traumatized by what had happened,

當時我非常震驚並且精神上受到了創傷

I didn't remember any of it.

我居然完全不記得。

Yes, I was aware something bad happened to me,

我確實是意識到不好的事情發生了，

but I had no recollection of what had happened.

當我並沒有去回憶發生了什麼。

I knew I had a scar down there,

我知道我的下面有個傷疤，

but I thought everybody had a scar down there.

當我以為每一個人下面都有個傷疤。

This had happened to everybody else.

每個人都經歷過這個。

But when I looked at Type II, it all came back to me.

但當我看著類型二的時候，所有的記憶都回來了。

I remembered what was done to me.

我想起了她們對我做了什麼。

I remembered being in that hut

我想起了在那個棚屋裡

with that old lady and my mom holding me down.

那個老婦人和我母親把我按住。

Words cannot express the pain I felt,

言語無法表達我所感到的疼痛，

the confusion that I felt,

我所感到的困惑，

because now I realized that what was done to me was a terrible thing

因為我意識到了 她們對我所做的事情，是一件可怕的事情

that in this society was called barbaric,

在這個社會被稱為野蠻的事情，

it was called mutilation.

它叫做女性外陰殘割。

My mother had said it was called circumcision,

我的母親曾說這叫做割禮，

but here it was mutilation.

但在這裡這是殘割。

I was thinking, I'm mutilated? I'm a mutilated person.

我在想，我被殘割了？我是一個殘缺的人。

Oh my God.

我的天啊。

And then the anger came.

接著，憤怒就來了。

I was a black angry woman. (Laughter)

我是一個憤怒的女黑人。（笑）

Oh yeah.

嗯，是的。

A little one, but angry nevertheless.

小女生，但是仍然憤怒。

I went home and said to my mom,

我回家跟母親說，

"You did something."

“你對我做了不好的事”。

This is not the African thing to do, pointing at your mother,

這不是非洲文化會做的事情，指著你的母親，

but hey, I was ready for any consequences.

可是，我當時可接受任何後果。

"You did something to me."

“你對我做了不好的事情。”

She's like, "What are you talking about, Khadija?"

她說，“Khadija，你在說什麼？”

She's used to me mouthing off.

她習慣了我發牢騷

I'm like, "Those years ago, You circumcised me.

我說，“幾年前，你對我做了割禮。

You cut away something that belonged to me."

你把屬於我的東西割掉了。”

She said, "Yes, I did.

她說，“是的。

I did it for your own good.

我做是為了你好。

It was in your best interest.

這是為你著想。

Your grandmother did it to me, and I did it to you.

你外婆對我做了，我對你做了。

It's made you a woman."

這讓你成為一個女人。”

I'm like, "How?"

我說，“怎麼會？”

She said, "You're empowered, Khadija.

她說，“你被賦予了力量，Khadija.

Do you get itchy down there?"

你下面會覺得癢嗎？”

I'm like, "No, why would I get itchy down there?"

我說，“不會，為什麼我會覺得癢？”

She said, "Well, if you were not circumcised,

她說，“看，如果你沒被行割禮，

you would get itchy down there.

你下面就會覺得癢。

Women who are not circumcised get itchy all the time.

沒有行割禮的女人下面總是癢的。

Then they sleep around with everybody.

而且她們會和每個人上床。

You are not going to sleep around with anybody."

你不會隨便和任何人上床。”

And I thought,

我想，

her definition of empowerment was very strange. (Laughter)

她對“賦予力量”的定義還真是奇怪。（笑）

That was the end of our first conversation.

我們的第一次談話就這樣結束了。

I went back to school.

我回到學校

These were the days when we had Dolly and Girlfriend magazines.

那個年代我們有雜誌“Dolly 和女友"

There was always the sealed section. Anybody remember those sealed sections?

雜誌裡總有一個部分是封起來的。 誰記得這些封起來的部分？

The naughty bits, you know?

不雅的內容，你知道的

Oh yeah, I love those. (Laughter)

對啊，我愛這部分。（笑）

Anyway, there was always an article about pleasure

總是會有一篇文章關於快感

and relationships and, of course, sex.

男女關係，當然，還有性。

But it always assumed that you had a clitoris, though,

但是這類文章總是基於你有陰蒂

and I thought, this doesn't fit me.

我當時想，這不合適我。

This doesn't talk about people like me.

這不是在講我這樣的人。

I don't have a clitoris.

我沒有陰蒂。

I watched TV and those women would moan like, "Oh! Oh!"

我看電視，上面那些女人如此呻吟 ”噢！噢！“

I was like, these people and their damned clitoris.

我想，這些該死的有陰蒂的人。

(Laughter)

（笑）

What is a woman without a clitoris supposed to do with her life?

沒有陰蒂的女人要如何生活？

That's what I want to know.

我想要知道。

I want to do that too -- "Oh! Oh!" and all of that.

我也想要那樣呻吟-- ”噢！噢！“這些

Didn't happen.

沒發生過。

So I came home once again and said to my mom,

所以我再回家跟母親說，

"Dolly and Girlfriend said I deserve pleasure,

”Dolly和女友“說， 我應該得到快感，

that I should be having orgasms,

我應該要有性高潮，

and that white men should figure out how to find the clitoris."

而白種男人應該弄清楚要怎麼找到陰蒂。”

Apparently, white men have a problem finding the clitoris.

顯然，白種男人常常找不到陰蒂。

(Laughter)

（笑）

Just saying, it wasn't me. It was Dolly that said that.

聲明一下，不是我說的。 是Dolly說的。

And I thought to myself, I had an inner joke in my head

我當時心裡有個笑話，

that said, "I will marry a white man.

“我會嫁個一個白人。

He won't have that problem with me." (Laughter)

他跟我就沒這個問題。” (笑）

So I said to my mom,

我對母親說，

"Dolly and Girlfriend said I deserve pleasure, and do you know

“Dolly和女友“說， 我應該有快感，

what you have taken away from me, what you have denied me?

你知道你剝奪了我的什麼嗎？ 你否定了我的什麼權利嗎？

You have invaded me in the most sacred way.

你在最神聖的方面侵略了我。

I want pleasure.

我想要快感。

I want to get horny, dammit, as well."

我也想要性慾繚繞，該死的。”

And she said to me, "Who is Dolly and Girlfriend?

然後她說， “誰是Dolly和女友？”

Are they your new friends, Khadija?"

她們是你的新朋友嗎，Khadija？“

I was like, "No, they're not. That's a magazine, mom, a magazine."

我說，”不，不是。 那是本雜誌，媽，雜誌。“

She didn't get it.

她不懂了。

We came from two different worlds.

我們來自兩個不同的世界。

When she was growing up, not having a clitoris was the norm.

她長大的時候， 沒有陰蒂是正常的事情。

It was celebrated.

人們慶祝它。

I was an African Australian girl.

我是一個非裔澳大利亞女孩。

I lived in a society that was very clitoris-centric.

我生活在一個以陰蒂為中心的社會。

It was all about the damn clitoris!

所有事情都和這該死的陰蒂有關！

And I didn't have one!

而我卻沒有！

That pissed me off.

這讓我非常生氣。

So once I went through this strange phase of anger

所以，當我度過了這段奇怪的，憤怒

and pain and confusion,

痛苦和迷惑的階段，

I remember booking an appointment with my therapist.

我記得與我的心理師碰面

Yes, I'm an African who has a therapist. There you go.

是的，我是個有心理治療師的非洲人 看吧

And I said to her,

我對她說，

"I was 13. I was a child.

”我當時13歲，還是個孩子。

I was settling in a new country,

我試著適應一個新的國家，

I was dealing with racism and discrimination,

我要應付種族主義和歧視，

English is my third language, and then there it was."

英語是我的第三種語言， 然後還有這個。"

I said to her, "I feel like I'm not a woman

我告訴她，“我覺得自己不是個女人，

because of what was done to me.

因為發生的事情。

I feel incomplete.

我覺得不完整。

Am I going to be asexual?"

我會變成性冷感嗎？“

Because from what I knew about FGM,

因為從我對女性外陰殘割的了解，

the whole aim of it was to control the sexuality of women.

其目的就是要控制女人的性慾。

It's so that we don't have any sexual desire.

這樣我們就不會有性慾。

And I said, "Am I asexual now?

我說，”我現在是性冷淡嗎？

Will I just live the rest of my life not feeling like having sex,

我會餘生都不想要有性生活嗎，

not enjoying sex?"

無法享受性？“

She couldn't answer my questions,

她無法回答我的問題，

so they went unanswered.

所以這些問題沒有答案。

When I started having my period around the age of 14,

在我14歲開始來月經的時候，

I realized I didn't have normal periods because of FGM.

因為外陰切割，我沒有正常的月經。

My periods were heavy, they were long, and they were very painful.

我的月經很多，很久 而且非常痛。

Then they told me I had fibroids.

他們告訴我，我有肌瘤。

They're like these little balls sitting there.

它們就像小球在那裡。

One was covering one of my ovaries.

其中一個包住了我的一個卵巢。

And there came then the big news.

然後大新聞來了，

"We don't think you can have children, Khadija."

”我們認為你大概無法懷孕了，Khadija。“

And once again, I was an angry black woman.

再一次，我又成為憤怒的女黑人。

I went home and I said to my mom,

我回家對母親說，

"Your act, your action, no matter what your may defense may be" --

”你的所作所為， 無論你的辯護理由是什麼“——

because she thought she did it out love --

因為她覺得她是因為愛我才做的——

"what you did out of love is harming me, and it's hurting me.

”你因為愛我而對我做的事情 讓我受傷，並且傷害了我。

What do you have to say for that?"

“你還有什麼好說的？“

She said, "I did what I had to do as a mother."

她說，“我做了一個母親不得不做的。”

I'm still waiting for an apology, by the way.

我還在等待她道歉，順便說

Then I got married.

之後我結婚了。

And once again --

再一次——

FGM is like the gift that keeps giving.

女性外陰殘割像是一個禮物不停地給予。

You figure that out very soon.

你馬上就明白了。

Sex was very painful.

性生活非常痛苦。

It hurt all the time.

每次都很痛。

And of course I realized, they said, "You can't have kids."

當然，我意識到，他們說 “你無法懷孕。”

I thought, "Wow, is this my existence? Is this what life is all about?"

我想，“哇，這就是我的存在？ 這就是生命的意義嗎？”

I'm proud to tell you,

我很驕傲地告訴你，

five months ago,

5個月前，

I was told I was pregnant.

我被告知懷孕了。

(Applause)

（掌聲）

I am the lucky girl.

我是個幸運的女孩。

There are so many women out there who have gone through FGM

有非常多的經歷過外陰切割的女性

who have infertility.

無法生育。

I know a nine-year-old girl who has incontinence, constant infections, pain.

我知道一個9歲的小女孩有 失禁，長期的感染，疼痛。

It's that gift. It doesn't stop giving.

這就是那個禮物。不停地給予。

It affects every area of your life,

它影響你生活的每一個領域，

and this happened to me because I was born a girl

而這一切發生就是因為我是個女人

in the wrong place.

出生在錯誤的地方。

That's why it happened to me.

這就是為什麼這些會發生在我身上。

I channel all that anger, all that pain, into advocacy

我重新引導了那些所有的憤怒， 痛苦，使其成為公開維護

because I needed my pain to be worth something.

因為我需要我的痛苦有所值。

So I'm the director of an organization called No FGM Australia.

所以，我成為了一個叫做 “澳大利亞無女性外陰殘割”組織的理事。

You heard me right.

你沒聽錯。

Why No FGM Australia?

為什麼要叫“澳大利亞無女性外陰殘割”？

FGM is in Australia.

女性外陰殘割 也在澳大利亞。

Two days ago, I had to call Child Protective Services,

兩天前，我必須打電話給兒童保護聯盟，

because somewhere in Australia,

因為在澳大利亞的某個地方，

there's a four-year old

有個4歲的女孩

there's a four-year-old whose mom is planning on performing FGM on her.

她的母親正準備 對她進行外陰切割。

That child is in kindy. I'll let that sink in: four years old.

那個小孩在幼稚園。 讓它沉澱一下：4歲。

A couple of months ago, I met a lady who is married to a Malaysian man.

幾個月前，我遇到一位女士 她先生是馬來西亞人。

Her husband came home one day and said he was going to take their daughters

她先生有天回到家說 他要帶他們的女兒們

back to Malaysia to cut off their clitoris.

回去馬來西亞 去切掉她們的陰蒂。

And she said, "Why?" He said they were dirty.

她說，“為什麼？” 他說它們很髒。

And she said, "Well, you married me."

然後她說，“那你娶了我。”

He said, "Oh, this is my cultural belief."

他說，“噢，這是我們的文化信仰。”

They then went into a whole discussion where she said to him,

然後他們開始了討論 其間她對他說，

"Over my dead body will you do that to my daughters."

“除非我死了， 你才可能對我的女兒做那樣的事。”

But imagine if this woman wasn't aware of what FGM was,

可是，想像如果這位女性不知道什麼是 女性外陰殘割，

if they never had that conversation?

如果他們從來沒有過那樣的對話？

Her children would have been flown over to Malaysia

她的孩子就會飛去馬來西亞

and they would have come back changed for the rest of their lives.

然後回來後，人生完全改變。

Do you know the millions of dollars

你知道需要多少錢

it would take us to deal with an issue like that?

來應對這樣的問題嗎？

[Three children per day] in Australia

在澳大利亞，每天有3個小孩

are at risk of having FGM performed on them.

有受到外陰切割的危險。

This is an Australian problem, people.

這是澳大利亞的問題，各位。

It's not an African problem. It's not a Middle Eastern problem.

這不是非洲的問題。 不是中東的問題。

It's not white, it's not black, it has no color, it's everybody's problem.

也不關白色或黑色人種， 這個問題沒有顏色，是每個人都問題。

FGM is child abuse.

女性外陰殘割是虐待兒童。

It's violence against women.

是對女性的暴力。

It's saying that women don't have a right to sexual pleasure.

它宣稱了女性沒有享受性快感的權利。

It says we don't have a right to our bodies.

它宣稱我們對我們自己的身體沒有權利。

Well, I say no to that, and you know what? Bullshit.

我要對它說”錯“ ”放屁“

That's what I have to say to that.

這是我要對它說的。

(Applause)

（掌聲）

I am proud to say that I'm doing my part in ending FGM.

我很驕傲地說 我在為終結女性外陰殘割盡力

What are you going to do?

你會做什麼呢？

There may be a child in your classroom who is at risk of FGM.

在你的教室裡或許 就有一個孩子有被切割的危險

There may be a patient who comes to your hospital

或許到你醫院就醫的病人

who is at risk of FGM.

就有危險受到切割。

But this is the reality,

這是現實。

that even in our beloved Australia,

即使是在我們熱愛的澳大利亞，

the most wonderful place in the world,

這世界上最美的地方，

children are being abused because of a culture.

兒童被虐待， 因為文化的關係。

Culture should not be a defense for child abuse.

文化不應該成為虐待兒童的辯詞

I want ever single one of you to see FGM as an issue for you.

我要在坐的每一位 把女性外陰殘割當成是你自己的問題。

Make it personal.

讓它與個人相關

It could be your daughter, your sister, your cousin.

（受害者）可能是你的女兒， 你的姐妹，你的表姐妹

I can't fight FGM alone.

我無法獨自與女性外陰殘割戰鬥。

I could try, but I can't.

我可以試，但我做不到。

So my appeal to you is, please join me.

所以，我對你的請求，請加入我。

Sign my petition on Change.org

在Change.org 網上為我的請願書簽名

and type in Khadija, my name, and it'll come up, and sign it.

輸入Khadija，我的名字， 就會出現，請簽名。

The aim of that is to get support for FGM victims in Australia

請願書的目的是為FGM的受害者尋求支持

and to protect little girls growing up here

並保護在成長的那些女孩

to not have this evil done to them,

不受如此邪惡的迫害，

because every child has a right to pleasure.

因為每一個孩子都有權利享受快樂。

Every child has a right to their bodies being left intact,

每一個孩子都有權利保持她們身體的完整。

and dammit, ever child has a right to a clitoris.

該死的，每個孩子都有權利有陰蒂。

So please join me in ending this act.

請加入我來一起終結這個行為。

My favorite quote is,

我最愛的名言是，

"All it takes for evil to prevail

”當一部分好人無所作為時，

is for a few good men and women to do nothing."

邪惡就會戰勝。“

Are you going to let this evil of female genital mutilation

你會讓女性外陰殘割這個邪惡

to prevail in Australia?

在澳大利亞戰勝嗎？

I don't think so,

我不這樣認為，

so please join me in ensuring that it ends in my generation.

請加入我確保 這個邪惡在我們這一代終止。

Thank you.

謝謝。

(Applause)

（掌聲）