Gender-affirming surgeries in US nearly tripled from 2016 to 2019, study finds

Gender-affirming surgery can help shape the body of a transgender or nonbinary person to more closely align with the gender with which they identify. CNN —

The number of gender-affirming surgeries done in the United States nearly tripled between 2016 and 2019, a new study shows.

The increase is probably due in part to changes in state and federal laws that require insurance to cover such care, in addition to some growing social acceptance of the trans community, according to the authors of the paper, published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Network Open .Earlier studies have detected an increasing trend […]

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