Transgender Surgery and Health Services & Procedures

Our program includes specialists and experts in:

  • Patient education
  • Comprehensive male-to-female and female-to-male gender-affirming surgeries
  • Complex revision surgeries
  • Urologic surgery
  • Plastic surgery
  • Otolaryngology (ear, nose, throat and facial) surgery
  • Hysterectomy
  • Colorectal reconstructive surgery
  • Radiology diagnostic and surgical planning
  • Adolescent medicine
  • Geriatric transgender medical and surgical care
  • Infectious disease care/HIV specialty care
  • Vocal cord and speech therapy
  • Dermatology and permanent hair removal
  • Fertility preservation
  • Hormone management
  • Comprehensive gender-affirming care for adolescents
  • Mental health and psychiatry services
  • Internal medicine, primary care and family medicine

Insurance Options Available

Cedars-Sinai accepts a broad spectrum of insurance plans for transition-related care, including Medi-Cal.

Genital Surgery

  • All male-to-female genital surgery (primary and revision surgery)
    • Bilateral orchiectomy
    • Primary vaginoplasty and revision surgeries
    • Neovaginal cavity creation, neovaginal cavity revision, zero-depth vaginoplasty
    • Intestinal vaginoplasty
    • Chronic pain, infections
  • All female-to-male genital surgeries (primary and revision surgery)
    • Metoidioplasty
    • Radial artery forearm-flap phalloplasty
    • Anterior lateral thigh-flap phalloplasty
    • Supra-pubic flap phalloplasty
    • Vaginectomy
    • Glansplasty
    • Complex scrotoplasty
    • Testicular prosthesis placement
    • Penile prosthesis placement, replacement and revision
    • Neourethral and stricture surgery
    • Chronic pain, infections

Facial Surgeries

  • Forehead contouring
  • Browlift
  • Scalp advancement
  • Otoplasty
  • Blepharoplasty
  • Facelift and neck lift
  • Rhinoplasty
  • Lip lift and augmentation
  • Mandible contouring
  • Chin implant
  • Tracheal shave

Plastic Surgery & Microsurgery

  • Oculoplastic surgery
  • Mastectomy (including revision)
  • Breast augmentation (including revision)
  • Feminizing hand surgery
  • Liposuction and filling
  • Scar revision
  • Mon pubis revision
  • Neophallus "lift" (suspension) surgery

Gynecologic Surgeries and Services

  • Hysterectomy, oophorectomy
  • Gynecologic oncology
  • Female fertility preservation, including oocyte banking
  • Assisted reproductive technologies
  • Reproductive endocrinology

Colorectal Reconstructive Surgery

  • Intestinal vaginoplasty
  • Fistula surgery

Urology

  • Genital gender-affirming surgeries
  • Urologic stone surgery (pre- and post-transition)
  • Urologic cancer surgeries (pre- and post-transition)
  • Male fertility preservation (including sperm banking)
  • Sexual health and medicine

Dermatology

  • Permanent hair removal
  • Management of skin conditions, including those related to genital surgery

Endocrinology

  • Transition-related hormone management (masculine and feminine)

Mental Health

  • Counseling and therapy
  • Provision and review of referral letters for surgery
  • Sexual health therapy

Primary Care

  • Hormone management
  • STD pre-exposure prophylaxis, screening and treatment
  • Preventive medicine

Adolescent Medicine

  • Gender-transition education
  • Primary adolescent care

Infectious Disease

  • HIV medicine and management
  • STD treatment

Geriatric Transgender Care

  • Primary and preventive care

Additional Services

  • Nondenominational spiritual care
  • Patient-to-patient mentorship program

Have Questions or Need Help?

Call the Transgender Surgery and Health team. You can also have us call you back at your convenience.

Available 24 hours a day

(1-800-233-2771)

Monday–Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Pacific Time (U.S.)