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This article is rooted in the author’s participation in a workinggroup involved in clinical practice with girls suffering fromagenesis of the uterus and vagina and presents an analysis of thetrauma to which these young patients bear witness. The authorexplores the ways in which a medically repaired or fully recreatedorgan may be subjectively appropriated as part of the patients’invention of what it is to be a woman. This also sheds light on theways in which contemporary medicine may play a role in thepsychical construction of the female body, and this in spite of thewomen concerned and from the sole vantage point of a technico-scientific vision which infiltrates the female subject.