Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery

Sarah M Creighton is a consultant gynaecologist and honorary clinical professor at University College London Hospital. She specialises in paediatric and adolescent gynaecology and is a member of the UCLH multidisciplinary service for Intersex/ Diverse Sex Development. She is a founder member and past Chair of the British Society for Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology (BritSPAG). She has published widely on genital surgery in girls and women including the phenomenon of cosmetic genital surgery.

Lih-Mei Liao is an honorary reader at UCL and consultant clinical psychologist at UCL Hospitals. She has helped to steer UK’s care provision for people born with medically benign genital differences towards a multi-disciplinary model. As a co-founder of the European Network for the Psychosocial Studies of Intersex/Diverse Sex Development, and Critical Sexology Seminar, she has built bridges between interested parties, dialogue between whom is needed to realise ethically and psychosocially informed approaches to address genital differences. This work has led her to critique socially motivated genital surgery more broadly.