genital

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Halfway through college, Russell spent two months in Tanzania assisting a nonprofit that taught female genital mutilation survivors how to make clothes to support themselves.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026

The Gambia's Supreme Court began hearing a case this week brought by religious traditionalists who are hoping to topple the country's poorly enforced ban on female genital mutilation.

From Barron's • Dec. 18, 2025

It is a psychiatric disorder characterised by an intense and irrational fear of the genital organs going missing or retracting into the body of the victim.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2024

Dimie Ogoina, a clinician at Niger Delta University in Nigeria, was the first to see mpox patients with genital lesions 7 years ago.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 19, 2024

The intersex movement aims to put an end to infant genital reconfiguration surgery.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides