Transgender Care

UR Medicine's health professionals take a multidisciplinary approach to supporting transgender patients, including adolescents and adults. Your team of transgender care experts may include:

• Mental health therapists
• Surgeons
• Speech specialists
• Pediatric and adult endocrinologists
• Gynecologists
• Physical therapists

Our healthcare professionals listen to and honor the needs and perspectives of patients and their families. We offer ongoing education and training to ensure that our services are inclusive and our staff are culturally sensitive to the needs of our transgender patients.

Services

The following transgender care is offered at these divisions and departments across the University of Rochester Medical Center:

Otolaryngology (ENT)

• Gender-affirming communication treatment
• Vocal therapy
• Gender-affirming facial surgery
• Tracheal shaving

Adolescent Medicine at Golisano Children’s Hospital (caring for youth and young adults through age 26)

• Mental health and wellness services
• Gender-affirming hormone therapy
• Pubertal blockade (medications that stop or pause puberty)
• Social work services

Plastic Surgery

• Gender-affirming top surgery (surgical removal or enhancement of the breasts)

Urology

• Orchiectomy (surgical removal of the testes)

Gynecology

• Hysterectomy (surgical removal of the uterus)
• Oophorectomy (surgical removal of the ovaries)

Adult and Reproductive Endocrinology

• Gender-affirming hormone therapy for people over 18 years of age
• Fertility services

Mental Health and Wellness

• Mental health care and assessment