Examining rates of gender-affirming surgery in the US

For adults and minors, most breast reductions performed on cisgender males and transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) people are performed on cisgender males, according to a research letter published online June 27 in JAMA Network Open. Dannie Dai, from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, and colleagues characterized the relative use of gender-affirming surgeries by TGD and cisgender populations. TGD people who received a gender-affirming procedure were identified; the rate of people who received a gender-affirming procedure with a TGD-related diagnosis per 100,000 total people was calculated Read More

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