Top 5 Factors In Determining The Donor Site For Phalloplasty Written by Michael H Safir, MD, Crane Center 1. Why are there so many options for donor site? Early during my surgical training, I learned an important fact: Whenever multiple surgical options exist for one problem, it means that no option is perfect. This is certainly true for phalloplasty. If the perfect procedure existed for all patients, we would abandon all alternatives and only perform that one ideal operation. In the...

This post is written by Colt St. Amand, PhD, MD (he/they) on behalf of Genderbands' partner and sponsor , the Gender Education Network, and their new evaluation tool that benefits health care professionals in serving transgender patients seeking surgery in affirming ways. As a community, we experience so many barriers to accessing the care we need, especially when it comes to surgeries. I still remember being told by my cisgender psychologist over a decade ago that I would need to complete a...

Top 5 Ways to Minimize the Appearance of Surgical Scars By Lauren Sederholm, PA-C, Crane Center Surgery can help a patient take their ideal body image from a dream to a reality. The transition that can be achieved with surgery is often exciting and life-changing but the process often leaves patients with visible surgical scars. Scarring occurs when skin or tissue is damaged and the body heals, so it’s pretty much impossible to have a surgical incision and zero scars. But there’s actually a...