Trans America: Surgeon shortage for transgender patients

August 27, 2015

An estimated 300,000 Americans would get sex reassignment surgery if they could

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Trans America: Surgeon shortage for transgender patients

There are fewer than 30 highly qualified sex-reassignment surgeons in the U.S. In this America Tonight excerpt, Lisa Fletcher looks at how the demand for these operations far exceeds the ability of U.S. hospitals to perform them.


 

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