In the series premiere of The Hidden Cut, I break the silence around one of America’s most normalized yet unspoken practices: circumcision. As I trace how a cultural hush formed around this surgery, we begin to uncover how silence itself became a shaping force—one that molded generations of men, parents, and public policy. This is where the unraveling begins.

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