Legal Inequality: Protection Against Genital Surgery Abroad

There is no law in the UK preventing boys from being taken overseas to have medically unnecessary rituals performed on their genitals. It is an offence to take a girl abroad to perform medically unnecessary rituals on her genitals

Legal Inequality: Surgery Without Anaesthetic

It is not illegal in the UK to perform non-consensual medically unnecessary surgery (ie male circumcision) on boys with anaesthetic. 

Legal Inequality: Genital Surgery

It is not illegal in the UK to perform medically unnecessary genital surgery (ie male circumcision) on boys

Health Inequality: Boys' Infant Mortality

Boys in the UK are 22% more likely to die in the first year of life than girls 

Infant mortality rates by gender in UK, England, Wales and

Scotland, 2006/08 Deaths in first year of life per 1,000 live births

	Baby Boys	Baby Girls
UK	5.34	4.37	0.97
England	5.38	4.43	0.95
Wales	5.24	3.74	1.50
Scotland	4.97	3.96	1.01

Source: How Fair Is Britain, ECHR, 2010 ref figures produced from interim life tables prepared and supplied by ONS.

Health Inequality: Life Expectancy

Life expectancy at birth by gender in England, Scotland and Wales, 2006-2008:

	England	Wales	Scotland
Men	77.7	76.9	75
Woman	81.9	81.2	79.9
Gap	4.2 years	4.3 years	4.9 years

Source: How Fair Is Britain, ECHR, 2012 (referencing Allmark, P. et al. 2010. Chapter 8. Pages 21-25)