Gender-affirming surgeries tripled in the U.S. between 2016-2019, study finds
“I do not know of a single patient who's ever had any kind of genital surgery under the age of 18," said Katy Miller, the medical director of adolescent medicine…
The number of gender-affirming surgeries taking place in the U.S. nearly tripled between 2016 and 2019, according to new national estimates from a cohort study in JAMA Network Open.
Over 48,000 people got some type of gender-affirming surgery between 2016-2020, with a slight decrease in the number of surgeries performed in 2020, likely because of the pandemic. Breast and chest surgeries, genital surgeries, and other facial or cosmetic procedures increased during that time period across age groups.
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