Marci Lee Bowers was born on January 18,1958 and is an American gynecologist and surgeon who specializes in gender-affirming surgeries.
22 Facts About Marci Bowers
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Marci Bowers operates at Mills-Peninsula Medical Center in Burlingame, California, and San Mateo Surgery Center in San Mateo, California.
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Marci Bowers is an international expert on functional clitoral restoration after female genital mutilation and cutting.
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Marci Bowers has spoken about her practice and other transgender topics in several documentaries, interviews, news reports, and articles.
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Marci Bowers was born in Oak Park, Illinois, and grew up in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, as one of four siblings.
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Marci Bowers was briefly a member of the Unification Church, which she later described as a "cult".
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Marci Bowers went on to attend the University of Minnesota Medical School where she was the class and student body president.
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Marci Bowers has served as Obstetrics and Gynecology Department Chairperson at Swedish Medical Center, and was named the only physician member of the Washington State midwifery board.
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Marci Bowers is a member-elect of the European Academy of Sciences.
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When Stanley Biber retired in 2003 at the age of 80, Marci Bowers took over his practice, and since then, has done more than 2000 genital reassignment surgeries, performing as many as 12 gender affirming surgeries weekly.
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Marci Bowers has helped initiate transgender surgical education programs at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, Denver Health in Colorado, and University of Toronto.
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In 2018 and 2019, Marci Bowers performed the first live surgical vaginoplasty surgeries in surgical educational programs sponsored by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.
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Marci Bowers is the current president of WPATH and has served on the board of directors for both GLAAD and the Transgender Law Center.
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Marci Bowers is the first US surgeon to perform clitoral restoration surgery for survivors of female genital mutilation, whom she does not charge for surgery.
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Marci Bowers was trained for this specific operation under Pierre Foldes and has now performed more than 500 clitoral restorations at her clinic in San Mateo.
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Marci Bowers has led medical missions to Burkina Faso, Nairobi, Kenya.
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Marci Bowers's first known television appearance was a role in "Ch-ch-ch-changes", a season 5 episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation that focused on transgender issues.
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Marci Bowers served as a production consultant for the episode.
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Marci Bowers appears as herself in the television documentary Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric, and in the reality series I Am Jazz from 2016 to 2018.
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Marci Bowers has been a guest on US talk shows including The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Tyra Banks Show.
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Marci Bowers is the author of at least five book chapters in surgical textbooks.
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In 2020, Marci Bowers made an appearance in the HBO documentary Transhood, where she performed 19-year-old Leena's gender reassignment surgery.