Although she belongs to the larger community of transgender individuals, Josie is one of a kind: she is the first patient ever to undergo comprehensive gender confirmation surgery at University of ...

Dora Richter was the first known person to undergo gender confirmation surgery. Why was she lost to history for so long?

Many options can help people cover the costs of gender affirmation surgery, sometimes also called gender confirmation surgery. Most of the major insurance providers recognize the need for ...

In the last two years, the Youtube star and LGBTQ+ activist has undergone multiple gender confirmation surgeries. Now, Jazz has good news for her fans and followers: surgery number three is complete.

Penn Medicine will no longer provide gender-affirming surgery to patients under age 19, effective this week, citing new ...

An advocacy group for transgender veterans is suing the government over its exclusion of gender-confirmation surgery in veterans’ health benefits. The Department of Veterans Affairs covers ...

The day after I turned 19, I underwent gender confirmation surgery, or GCS, in Bangkok. An announcement like this is usually followed by a slew of questions, often from total strangers, ...

LGBT activists rally in support of transgender individuals on the steps of New York City Hall on Oct. 24, 2018. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Advocates for transgender veterans are asking a federal ...

Months later, the secretary of the Veterans Affairs Department announced that the agency would provide gender-confirmation surgery. But that change has not happened, so the Transgender American ...

In contemporary language, many individuals now prefer to use terms such as gender affirmation or confirmation surgery. ‘Transforming Lives, Embracing Identity: Gender Affirmation surgery can ...

"A lot of people have made headlines talking about GCS. Almost all of them have one thing in common: They’ve never actually been through it. I have." ...