Boston Children's Hospital's director of gender surgeries for kids called for the expansion of capacity, including for medical school students to be trained on gender-affirming care.
also previously faced a wave of backlash over its Center for Gender Surgery that performs mastectomies on teenagers as young as 15, as well as since-deleted wording on the hospital's website that claimed teens as young as 17 can get vaginoplasties.
A video on Boston Children's Hospital posted said that children can know their gender identity ‘from the woumb.' The hospital’s website stated as recently as Aug. 12 that"to qualify for gender affirmation at Boston Children's Hospital, you must be at least 18 years old for phalloplasty or metoidioplasty and at least 17 years old for vaginoplasty," according toThat wording has since been changed to read,"To qualify for gender affirmation at Boston Children's Hospital, you must be at least 18 years old for phalloplasty or metoidioplasty and for vaginoplasty.
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