Gender-affirming surgery — most commonly breast and chest or "top surgery" — nearly tripled across the country between 2016 and 2019, new research has found. Transgender and nonbinary people sometimes elect for gender-affirming surgery to physically match their body to their gender identity. Some do not elect for surgery, which is just one part of gender-affirming care, a multidisciplinary approach that may include hormone therapy but also things like counseling that helps patients transition from their gender identity assigned at birth to the one they identify with.
Despite hundreds of anti-LGBTQ laws enacted this year across the country, evidence continues to prove time and again that gender-affirming care can save lives, with another recent study showing zero trans and nonbinary individuals surveyed regretted their decision or reversed their affirming procedures.
