Dr. Bowers accepts invitation to participate as an invited speaker to the ”The End Violence Against Girls: Summit on FGM”. Dr. Bowers has been an advocate for ending FGM globally while working with Dr. Pierre Foldes and Clitoraid since 2007. Dr. Bowers is one of a several surgeons in the world who perform a functional […]
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Follow the link to read the 2012 research article on clitoral restoration surgery by Pierre Foldès, Béatrice Cuzin, and Armelle Andro.
Dr. Bowers delivering Dean’s Lecture Series ‘Transgender Medicine’ at Stanford University Medical School.
Keynote address by Dr. Marci Bowers at the Walk to End FGM in Washington D.C. on October 31, 2015. An End to FGM in Our Lifetime I am incredibly honored to be here as your speaker today. When I say honored, I do so sincerely because I am an outsider, an onlooker, a woman of […]
In the global struggle for women’s rights, few issues have gone as overlooked and misunderstood as female genital mutilation. Endemic to 29 countries in Africa and the Middle East, the procedure has been performed on at least 130 million girls, and as many as 30 million more under the age of 15 are at risk, […]
“The transgender movement has progressed in ways even I didn’t really think was possible,” Bowers says. “Gender and the exploration of gender is really, if you think about it, the last wave of the human rights movement… We’re going through, still, racial rights and women’s rights and sexual rights. Now, this latest and, hopefully, final […]
In late 2014, GLAAD commissioned Harris Poll to measure attitudes toward LGBT Americans. From the GLAAD website: 2015 is poised to be an historic year for the rights of LGBT Americans. With 37 states having legal marriage for same-sex couples, the Supreme Court may be on the verge of recognizing a constitutional right to marriage […]
Dr. Bowers is in Spain working with the Facial Team as part of their International Transgender Healthcare Initiative. This is an ongoing effort to bring together health professionals in transgender care for a common purpose: innovation and advancement in services aimed at improving the quality of life for members of the transgender community. They do […]
My Thoughts on FGM From a western upbringing, it is easy to pass judgment on the seemingly inhumane practice of Genital cutting, otherwise known as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). The notion of excising the genitalia of young women seems, at first blush, to be cruel by any standard of decency. That a trusted family member […]