Prevalence and Factors Associated With Gender-Affirming Surgery Among Transgender Women & Transgender Men in a Community-Based Clinic in Metro Manila, Philippines: A Retrospective Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

More information is needed about gender-affirming surgery (GAS) in the Philippines because of many self- or peer-prescribed gender-affirming procedures among transgender people.

Aim

To assess the desire of transgender adults for GAS, determined the prevalence, and evaluated factors associated with the desire.

Methods

We did a retrospective study of medical charts of 339 transgender men (TGM) and 186 transgender women (TGW) who attended clinical services at Victoria by LoveYourself, a transgender-led community-based clinic in Metro Manila, from March 2017 to December 2019. The medical charts were reviewed to ascertain data on gender dysphoria (GD), clinical and sociodemographic characteristics, health-seeking behaviors, and gender-affirmation-related practic

SUBMITTER: Eustaquio PC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9023245 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature