Moving Beyond Psychiatric Gatekeeping for Gender-Affirming Surgery

Catherine A Wu; Alex S Keuroghlian

doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2022.5828

Moving Beyond Psychiatric Gatekeeping for Gender-Affirming Surgery

JAMA Surg. 2023 Mar 1;158(3):231-232. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2022.5828.

Authors

Catherine A Wu¹, Alex S Keuroghlian^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ University of California, Irvine Medical Center, Irvine.
² Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

PMID: 36515959
DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2022.5828

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This Viewpoint describes gatekeeping in gender-affirming care and provides recommendations to improve access to gender-affirming surgery for transgender people.

MeSH terms

Gatekeeping
Humans
Sex Reassignment Surgery*
Transgender Persons* / psychology