History of nation’s first gender-affirming surgery clinic offers both a lesson and cautionary tale
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4 October 2022History of nation’s first gender-affirming surgery clinic offers both a lesson and cautionary tale
An essay about the creation and subsequent closure of the nation’s first gender-affirming surgery (GAS) clinic in the United States offers a unique history lesson about and cautionary tale for physicians treating transgender persons in the face of both existing institutional transphobia and renewed cultural backlash. The piece is published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
