'A thousand excuses.' LGBTQ+ community reacts to Vanderbilt's transgender surgery end

Reaction continued as Vanderbilt University Medical Center abruptly announced an end to transgender surgery, advocates say ...
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‘My scars aren’t a finish line’: three trans and non-binary people on how top surgery changed their lives

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ezra Michel got top surgery in 2017 and had to petition Medi-Cal five times to get a revision covered. ‘I felt like I could ...
STAT

Gender-affirming surgery disappeared from the U.S. for decades. Now the field is fighting to keep its gains

For patients who receive gender-affirming surgery, the experience can feel like a rebirth. “I decided that the old me would die on the table and then the new me would come up from it,” said Wendy ...

Plastic surgeons say transgender youth should wait until age 19 for surgery

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons says transgender youth should wait until age 19 to have any surgeries. Surgery is already rarely performed for transgender young people.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center to end surgeries for transgender adults

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is discontinuing surgeries for transgender adults after mounting pressures from lawmakers.
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Trans people ‘increasingly heading abroad’ for gender surgery due to ‘horrific’ NHS waiting lists

Trans people are increasingly travelling abroad to countries such as Thailand to undergo gender-reassignment surgeries (GRS), with lengthy NHS backlogs resulting in some patients waiting up to 20 ...