The transgender community is a vulnerable population at increased risk for a number of adverse health outcomes including surgical complications, development of cancers, and chronic disease. In ...

A transgender woman in Australia chemically burned her penis in order to undergo gender-affirming surgery, according to a case report from the Department of Urology, Royal North Shore Hospital in St ...

A Few Plain Facts Nearly 1.4 million Americans do not identify with the sex assigned to them at birth. This is called gender dysphoria (Anderson and colleagues, 2023) About 64 percent of Americans ...

Opinions vary on how to approach sex-assignment surgery for disorders of sex development. Should children with disorders of sex development (DSD) —in which genitalia, chromosomes, or reproductive ...

Approximately 1.6 million individuals in the US identify as TGD, with many seeking GAS to alleviate gender dysphoria and improve mental well-being. The study found 43.5% of participants underwent GAS, ...

A new study has found that the level of regret reported by transgender individuals following gender-affirming surgery is less than 1%, which is significantly lower than the regret associated with ...