Editing 5α-Reductase 2 deficiency (section)

===Popular culture===
In the ''[[Nip/Tuck]]'' season three episode "Quentin Costa", it is revealed that [[Quentin Costa]] had 5-ARD.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Steinhoff |first1=H. |title=Transforming Bodies: Makeovers and Monstrosities in American Culture |date=26 May 2015 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-137-49379-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7xANCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA184 |language=en}}</ref>

[[Jeffrey Eugenides]]' Pulitzer Prize-winning 2002 novel ''[[Middlesex (novel)|Middlesex]]'' is about a young man with 5-ARD. The character was originally born Calliope and raised as a girl, but upon realizing his genetic sex, he transitions into Cal.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hsu |first1=Stephanie |title=Ethnicity and the Biopolitics of Intersex in Jeffrey Eugenides's 'Middlesex' |journal=MELUS |date=2011 |volume=36 |issue=3 |pages=87–110 |doi=10.1353/mel.2011.0045 |jstor=23035264 |s2cid=146517414 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex gave me the courage to take risks in my writing {{!}} Nadifa Mohamed |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/25/middlesex-jeffrey-eugenides-intersex-book-changed-me |access-date=26 December 2021 |work=the Guardian |date=25 August 2014 |language=en}}</ref>