AUGS/IUGA Scientific Meeting 2019-Panel: Beyond Surgery...What We All Need to Know About the Transgender Patient

Panel: Beyond Surgery...What We All Need to Know About the Transgender Patient

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The speaker starts by expressing their excitement to be at the event and introduces the topic of transgender health. They discuss the history of transgender health in Europe and the United States, noting key figures and surgeries that have contributed to the field. They highlight the moratorium on transgender surgeries in the United States in the late 1970s and the subsequent shift towards private practice surgeons performing these surgeries in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The speaker emphasizes the importance of gender-affirming care and the advancements made in the field in recent years, including the establishment of multidisciplinary care teams and the incorporation of transgender care into medical society programs. They also discuss the increase in research on transgender health in recent years. The speaker concludes by discussing the future of transgender health, including the training of gynecologic subspecialists and innovations in surgical techniques. They stress the importance of urologists and urogynecologists in providing gender-affirming surgeries and care. The speaker then introduces their colleagues and thanks the organizers for the opportunity to speak.

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Cecile A Ferrando, MD, MPH, Annette Kuhn, MD, Ervin Kocjancic, MD, Dmitriy Nikolavsky, MD

Keywords

transgender health

surgeries

gender-affirming care

advancements

research

medical society programs

gynecologic subspecialists

surgical techniques

urologists