Introduction Gender confirmation surgery (GCS) for the male-to-female (MTF) individual fulfills a final, completive step in a process that, for most, has spanned years or decades. Completing this surgical journey…
Introduction The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) considers hysterectomy with or without salpingectomy and/or oophorectomy a medically necessary gender-affirming surgery for trans men interested in the procedure. The…
Introduction: Role of the Gynecologist Obstetricians, gynecologists (OBGYNs), and other women’s health providers have a critical role in the care of transgender people. Transgender people, both transgender men and transgender…
Introduction Primary care clinicians can learn the skills to provide high-quality, affirming medical care to transgender patients the same way they learn to care for other patients with specific health…
Acknowledgments To our team, our families, and our patients. Introduction From a very early age, everyone is able to recognize whether a face is male or female, long before learning…
Introduction Breast or chest surgery, specifically either augmentation mammaplasty or mastectomy/chest reconstruction, are commonly requested procedures in the transgender and gender diverse population. The overarching goal of such surgeries is…
Introduction Gender affirmation surgery (formerly called sex reassignment surgery) may be sought by transgender individuals to physically change their sexual characteristics to affirm their gender identity. While not all transgender…
Introduction Disorders of sexual development (DSD)―a less derogatory term than intersex―are a heterogenous group of conditions characterized by aberrant chromosomal, gonadal, and/or anatomic sex with widely varying genotypic and phenotypic…
Foreword While it is still a different era than anyone born before 1965 can remember, much is left to be done to optimize care of transgender youth. Whether to include…
Introduction Transgender medicine is a developing field of medicine that spans multiple subspecialties. Transgender individuals are defined as those whose gender identity differs from the assigned sex recorded for them…
