Marci Bowers, M.D. of Burlingame, California, is acknowledged as a pioneer in the field of Gender Affirming Surgery and is the first trans woman and first woman worldwide to perform transgender surgery. She is a pelvic and gynecologic surgeon with more than 30 years’ experience and has performed over 2100 primary MTF Gender Affirming Vaginoplasties and more than 3400 Gender Affirming Surgeries. Dr. Bowers established transgender surgical education programs at Sheba Hospital in Tel Aviv (2014), Mt. Sinai in New York (2016), Denver Health (2018), the University of Toronto (2019) and, more recently, Northwell Health (2020) and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. She is Presidentelect of WPATH, and previously served on the board of directors for GLAAD and the Transgender Law Center. Marci has been called the Transgender Surgery Rock Star (Denver Post), the Georgia O’keefe of Genitalia (unknown) and the Beyonce of Bottom Surgery (KPFK-FM in North Hollywood).
