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Kimberly Zieselman, executive director of interACT, said after 15 years of advocacy, they’ve begun last year to see some children’s hospitals committing to ending medically unnecessary clitoral and vaginal surgeries.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2021

“Their organization is controversial, but the goodness is there,” Dr. Bowers said about Clitoraid, which refers some patients to her California clinic, where she has a yearlong waiting list for clitoral restoration.

From New York Times • May 24, 2019

The procedure, often called clitoral reconstruction or restoration, is viewed with caution and skepticism by some medical experts.

From New York Times • May 24, 2019

Women, by contrast, begin to show male characteristics: decreased body fat, leaner muscle, facial hair, deeper voices, clitoral enlargement, male pattern baldness.

From Slate • Aug. 25, 2011

Taken continuously in very large doses, steroids have caused clitoral enlargement in young girls and beard growth and baldness in women.

From Time Magazine Archive