Trends in Gender-Affirming Surgeries in the United States from 2010 to 2021

Abstract

Introduction: In 2017, an estimated 1.6 million adults and 150,000 teenagers identified as transgender in the United States. With ever-changing legislative developments regarding health care benefits for this population and the increasing number of patients presenting for gender-affirming surgery (GAS), there is a scarcity of literature on the temporal trends within the past decade. The objective of this study was to examine the temporal trends of the utilization of GAS.

Keywords

• gender-affirming surgery
• gender reassignment surgery
• surgical outcomes
• transgender surgery
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