Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine will recommence its transgender surgical program after a 38-year lapse, reports The Washington Post. Here are four things to know. 1. The health system plans to ...

In the face of rising demand for the procedure, Boston Medical Center intends on becoming the first hospital in Massachusetts to provide gender reassignment surgery as a treatment option for the ...

Removing women’s breasts is the least complicated part of gender reassignment surgery, and even this can result in serious complications. The more significant problems are associated with genital ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is urging states to not use Medicaid funds for gender-affirming care for minors, specifically gender reassignment surgeries or hormone treatments. ...

A federal district judge in Indiana has once again ordered the state Department of Correction (IDOC) to arrange a sex reassignment surgery for a transgender inmate convicted of reckless homicide of a ...

BISMARCK — A judge has upheld North Dakota’s ban on transgender health care for children. Burleigh County Judge Jackson Lofgren ruled Wednesday, Oct. 8, that the North Dakota Legislature was within ...

U.S. bishops voted Wednesday to ban gender reassignment surgeries at Catholic hospitals in their latest update to the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services. The seventh ...

The Obama administration last week ended a ban on Medicare coverage for sex-reassignment surgery. The decision by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) appeals board could have an impact ...