Boston Children’s Hospital director calls for drastic increase in capacity for gender surgeries for minors

Hannah Grossman:

“Physicians who provide GAC will face a greater burden due to constraints in certain states… work to criminalize GAC for adolescents,” the article stated. “Especially as certain states work to criminalize GAC for adolescents, there will be an increased flux of patients traveling to seek care in states with more open legislation.” 

It called for more clinics to be opened up with targeted knowledge on the gender-affirming model. They outlined several steps “to improve capacity for this patient population” since “there will be an increased flux of patients traveling to seek care in states with more open legislation.”