When looking for a surgeon, choose someone that you trust and can connect with. Be careful with your choice, learn as much as you can about them, and be sure to contact your peer group for referrals. This list is provided for information only to give you a starting point, primarily in the US. There may be many more that are not on this list and I encourage you to do your research and not make any rush decisions. Be open minded to going out of the country such as Mexico, Canada and Thailand. Above all, these are life changing surgeries, so choose carefully and wisely. And if I may, please approach our surgeons with gratitude, they often stick their necks way out to help us.
Finally and above all, remember that surgery is only an option, and you need not have any at all! There can be serious downsides to surgery so please research surgeries and surgeons carefully. And ask your surgeon the tough questions, like how many have you done, what has your track record been, any difficulties arise, what will my sensation and appearance be and so on. It’s okay to be direct with your surgeon. Don’t assume anything about your results. Ask!
NOTE: If you know of any additions to add, please let me know!
NOTE: Minimum counseling requirements for referrals are set by surgeons, WPATH, and insurance companies. This is a moving target, so I suggest you contact your surgeon and insurance companies for their policies for “gender dysphoria”.
Below are mostly FTM and MTF procedures. Some doctors also offer nonbinary procedures as well, though they are not specifically listed at the moment. It’s hard to keep up! 🙂
A few types of MTF surgeries include:
- Buttocks Implants, Body Contouring, Pelvic Plasty & Breast Augmentation
- Facial Feminization
- Genital Reconstruction & Orchiectomy
- Voice Surgery
- Hair Transplants
- Shoulder narrowing, rib removal & leg shortening
A few types of FTM surgeries include:
- Body Masculinization
- Facial Masculinization
- Chest Reconstruction
- Genital Reconstruction & Hysterectomy/Oophorectomy
- Voice Surgery
- Facial Hair Transplants
- Shoulder widening and leg lengthening
Texas Surgeons
- Ali Abtahi (Plano, TX)
- Bardia Amirlak (Dallas, TX)
- Jeff Angobaldo (Plano, TX)
- Lindsey Clemson Arviso (Dallas, TX)
- Bradley and Michael Eisemann (Houston, TX)
- AI4PS: Peter Raphael,Alan Dulin, Scott Harris & Alfred Antonetti (Plano, TX)
- Crane Center: Curtis Crane, Kenan Celtik, Ashley DeLeon,Max Gallegos, Charles Lee, Rachel Goldstein, Gerhard Mundinger, Richard Santucci (San Francisco & Austin)
- Daniel Freet (Houston, TX)
- Ted Mau (Dallas, TX)
- Dustin Reid (Austin, TX)
- Regina Rodman (Houston, TX)
- Sarah Saxon (Austin and Dallas, TX)
- Angela Sturm (Houston, TX)
- R. Scott Yarish (Houston, TX)
- Adam Bryce Weinfeld (Austin, TX)
MTF Facial Feminization Surgeons
- AI4PS: Peter Raphael,Alan Dulin, Scott Harris & Alfred Antonetti (Plano, TX)
- Align Surgical Center: Thomas Satterwhite, Dev Gurjala, John Pang, Michael Safir, Paul Mittermiller, Breanna Jedrzejewski (San Francisco & LA, CA)
- Gary Alter (Beverly Hills, CA)
- Bardia Amirlak (Dallas, TX)
- Nicholas Bastidas (New York, NY)
- Jens Berli (Portland, OR)
- Branko Bojovic (Boston, MA)
- Carlos Céspedes Irrazábal (Barcelona, Spain – Use Google Translate to View)
- Scott Chaiet (Madison, WI)
- Ross Clevens (Melbourne, FL)
- Gabriel Del Corral (Baltimore, MD and Washington, DC)
- Crane Center: Curtis Crane, Kenan Celtik, Ashley DeLeon,Max Gallegos, Charles Lee, Rachel Goldstein, Gerhard Mundinger, Richard Santucci (San Francisco & Austin)
- Lazero Cardenas (Guadalajara, Mexico)
- Manish Champaneria (San Diego, CA)
- Courtney Caplin (Oklahoma City, OK)
- Jordan Deschamps-Braly (San Francisco, CA)
- Marcelo Di Maggio (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- Bradley and Michael Eisemann (Houston, TX)
- Barry Eppley (Carmel, IN)
- Nicholas Esmonde and Hema Thakar (Portland, OR)
- Mark Filstein (New York, NY)
- Beverly Fisher (Lutherville-Timonium, MD)
- Daniel Freet (Houston, TX)
- Katherine Gast (Madison, WI)
- GRS Montreal: Pierre Brassard, Maud Belanger, Valerie Brousseau, Sarah Eidelson, Alex Laungani, Chen Lee, Dru Perkins and Julien Shine (Montreal, Canada)
- Josef Hadeed (Beverly Hills, CA and Miami, FL)
- William Hoffman (San Francisco, CA)
- Richard Huynh (Irvine, CA)
- Johns Hopkins: Armina Azizi, Wendy Chen, Andrew Cohen, Errol Fields, Bashar Hassan, Helene Hedian, Nima Khavanin, Fan Liang (Baltimore, MD)
- Jeff Jumaily (Beverly Hills, CA)
- Susan Kaweski (San Diego, CA)
- Kyle Keojampa (San Francisco & Los Angeles, CA)
- Alex Kim (Beverly Hills, CA)
- Harrison Lee (Beverly Hills, CA and New York, NY)
- Michelle Lee (Beverly Hills, CA)
- Joel and Tom Liu (San Mateo, CA)
- Keelee MacPhee (Durham, NC)
- Vartan Mardirossian (Jupiter, FL)
- Toby Mayer (Beverly Hills, CA)
- Toby Meltzer (Scottsdale, AZ and Portland, OR)
- GC Center: Scott Mosser, Ellie Zara Ley, Daniel Jacobs & Alexander Facque (San Francisco, CA)
- Tuan Nguyen (Lake Oswego, OR)
- Michael Obeng (Beverly Hills, CA)
- Omni Cosmetic: Bryan Rolfes, Miles Bichanich, Mitchell Hagen (Minneapolis, MN)
- Parit Patel (Chicago, IL)
- Stephen Pincus (Beverly Hills, CA)
- Regina Rodman (Houston, TX)
- Angela Rodriguez (San Francisco, CA)
- Kathy Rumer (Ardmore, PA)
- David Sajan (Seattle, WA)
- Christopher Salgado (Miami, FL)
- Sarah Saxon (Austin and Dallas, TX)
- Mark Schoemann (Encinitas, CA)
- Daniel Knott (San Francisco, CA)
- Alexander Sinclair (Beverly Hills, CA)
- Jeffrey Spiegel & Jacob Tower (Boston, MA)
- Geoffrey Stiller (Spokane, WA)
- Angela Sturm (Houston, TX)
- Jess Ting (New York, NY)
- Ali Totonchi (Cleveland, OH)
- Gregory Turowski and Aditya Sood (Skokie, IL)
- UCLA: Gladys Ng, Thomas Gaither, Justine Lee, Wayne Ozaki, Dinesh Chhetri, Michael Holliday, Michael DeLong & George Rudkin (Los Angeles, CA)
- R. Scott Yarish (Houston, TX)
- Adam Bryce Weinfeld (Austin, TX)
- Mark Zukowski (Chicago, IL)
MTF Gender Reassignment Surgeons
- AI4PS: Peter Raphael,Alan Dulin, Scott Harris & Alfred Antonetti (Plano, TX)
- Align Surgical Center: Thomas Satterwhite, Dev Gurjala, John Pang, Michael Safir, Paul Mittermiller, Breanna Jedrzejewski (San Francisco & LA, CA)
- Gary Alter (Beverly Hills, CA)
- Rachel Bluebond-Langner (New York)
- Marci Bowers (Burlingame, CA)
- Crane Center: Curtis Crane, Kenan Celtik, Ashley DeLeon,Max Gallegos, Charles Lee, Rachel Goldstein, Gerhard Mundinger, Richard Santucci (San Francisco & Austin)
- Gabriel Del Corral (Baltimore, MD and Washington, DC)
- GC Center: Scott Mosser, Ellie Zara Ley, Daniel Jacobs & Alexander Facque (San Francisco, CA)
- Nicholas Esmonde and Hema Thakar (Portland, OR)
- Daniel Freet (Houston, TX)
- Sidhbh Gallagher (Miami, FL)
- Maurice Garcia (Los Angeles, CA)
- Katherine Gast (Madison, WI)
- GRS Montreal: Pierre Brassard, Maud Belanger, Valerie Brousseau, Sarah Eidelson, Alex Laungani, Chen Lee, Dru Perkins and Julien Shine (Montreal, Canada)
- Josef Hadeed (Orchiectomy, Miami & Beverly Hills)
- Dany Hanna (Dallas, Texas)
- Stanton Honig (New Haven, CT)
- Johns Hopkins: Armina Azizi, Wendy Chen, Andrew Cohen, Errol Fields, Bashar Hassan, Helene Hedian, Nima Khavanin, Fan Liang (Baltimore, MD)
- Min Jun (Atherton, CA)
- Nicholas Kim (Minneapolis, MN)
- Ervin Kocjancic (Chicago, IL)
- Jessica Lee (Los Angeles, CA)
- Keelee MacPhee (Durham, NC)
- Christine McGinn (New Hope, PA)
- Toby Meltzer (Scottsdale, AZ and Portland, OR)
- Mozaic: Heidi Wittinberg and Adam Bonnington (San Francisco, CA)
- Tuan Nguyen (Lake Oswego, OR)
- Michael Obeng (Beverly Hills, CA)
- Peter Raphael (Plano, TX)
- Rajveer Purohit (New York, NY)
- Angela Rodriguez (San Francisco, CA)
- Kathy Rumer (Ardmore, PA)
- Christopher Salgado (Miami, FL)
- Nabeel Sayed (Orchiectomy only)
- Alexander Sinclair (Beverly Hills, CA)
- Geoffrey Stiller (Spokane, WA)
- John Taylor (Middletown, NJ)
- Jess Ting (New York, NY)
- UCLA: Gladys Ng, Thomas Gaither, Justine Lee, Wayne Ozaki, Dinesh Chhetri, Michael Holliday, Michael DeLong & George Rudkin (Los Angeles, CA)
- John Whitehead, Alain Ramirez and Christian Quintero (Miami, FL)
- Jonathan Winograd (Boston, MA)
- Heidi Wittenberg (San Francisco, CA)
FTM Facial Masculinization
- AI4PS: Peter Raphael, Alan Dulin, Scott Harris & Alfred Antonetti (Plano, TX)
- Align Surgical Center: Thomas Satterwhite, Dev Gurjala, John Pang, Michael Safir, Paul Mittermiller, Breanna Jedrzejewski (San Francisco & LA, CA)
- Gary Alter (Beverly Hills, CA)
- Bardia Amirlak (Dallas, TX)
- Courtney Caplin (Oklahoma City, OK)
- Manish Champaneria (San Diego, CA)
- Jordan Deschamps-Braly (San Francisco, CA)
- Marcelo Di Maggio (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- Bradley and Michael Eisemann (Houston, TX)
- Barry Eppley (Carmel, IN)
- Nicholas Esmonde and Hema Thakar (Portland, OR)
- Beverly Fisher (Lutherville-Timonium, MD)
- Daniel Freet (Houston, TX)
- GC Center: Scott Mosser, Ellie Zara Ley, Daniel Jacobs & Alexander Facque (San Francisco, CA)
- GRS Montreal: Pierre Brassard, Maud Belanger, Valerie Brousseau, Sarah Eidelson, Alex Laungani, Chen Lee, Dru Perkins and Julien Shine (Montreal, Canada)
- Johns Hopkins: Armina Azizi, Wendy Chen, Andrew Cohen, Errol Fields, Bashar Hassan, Helene Hedian, Nima Khavanin, Fan Liang (Baltimore, MD)
- Josef Hadeed (Miami & Beverly Hills)
- Susan Kaweski (San Diego, CA)
- Michelle Lee (Beverly Hills, CA)
- Michael Obeng (Beverly Hills, CA)
- David Sajan (Seattle, WA)
- Christopher Salgado (Miami, FL)
- Jeffrey Spiegel & Jacob Tower (Boston, MA)
- Geoffrey Stiller (Spokane, WA)
- UCLA: Gladys Ng, Thomas Gaither, Justine Lee, Wayne Ozaki, Dinesh Chhetri, Michael Holliday, Michael DeLong & George Rudkin (Los Angeles, CA)
- Gregory Turowski and Aditya Sood (Skokie, IL)
- Mark Youseff (Santa Monica, CA)
FTM Chest Reconstruction & MTF Breast Augmentation (Doctors that do both)
- AI4PS: Peter Raphael,Alan Dulin, Scott Harris & Alfred Antonetti (Plano, TX)
- Align Surgical Center: Thomas Satterwhite, Dev Gurjala, John Pang, Michael Safir, Paul Mittermiller, Breanna Jedrzejewski (San Francisco & LA, CA)
- Ali Abtahi (Plano, TX)
- Frank Agullo (El Paso, TX)
- Timothy Alexander (Hollywood, FL)
- Bardia Amirlak (Dallas, TX)
- Jeff Angobaldo (Plano, TX)
- Richard Bartlett (Brookline, MA)
- Joel Beck (San Francisco, CA)
- Jens Berli (Portland, OR)
- Courtney Caplin (Oklahoma City, OK)
- Hope Cherie (Charlotte, NC)
- Crane Center: Curtis Crane, Kenan Celtik, Ashley DeLeon,Max Gallegos, Charles Lee, Rachel Goldstein, Gerhard Mundinger, Richard Santucci (San Francisco & Austin)
- Gabriel Del Corral (Baltimore, MD and Washington, DC)
- Miguel Delgado (San Francisco, CA)
- Bradley and Michael Eisemann (Houston, TX)
- Nicholas Esmonde and Hema Thakar (Portland, OR)
- Beverly Fisher (Lutherville-Timonium, MD)
- Daniel Freet (Houston, TX)
- Sidhbh Gallagher (Miami, FL)
- Charles Garramone (Davie, FL)
- Katherine Gast (Madison, WI)
- GC Center: Scott Mosser, Ellie Zara Ley, Daniel Jacobs & Alexander Facque (San Francisco, CA)
- GRS Montreal: Pierre Brassard, Maud Belanger, Valerie Brousseau, Sarah Eidelson, Alex Laungani, Chen Lee, Dru Perkins and Julien Shine (Montreal, Canada)
- Dany Hanna (Dallas, Texas)
- Sean Hill (Frisco, TX)
- Elliot Jacobs (New York, NY)
- Johns Hopkins: Armina Azizi, Wendy Chen, Andrew Cohen, Errol Fields, Bashar Hassan, Helene Hedian, Nima Khavanin, Fan Liang (Baltimore, MD)
- Melissa Johnson (Springfield, MA)
- Nicholas Kim (Minneapolis, MN)
- Clifford King (Madison, WI)
- Gary Lawton (San Antonio, TX)
- Sheldon Lincenberg (Atlanta, GA)
- Joel and Tom Liu (San Mateo, CA)
- Alan Dulin, Scott Harris, Peter Raphael (Plano, TX)
- Josef Hadeed (Beverly Hills, CA and Miami, FL)
- Keelee MacPhee (Durham, NC)
- Tony Mangubat (Tukwila, WA)
- Christine McGinn (New Hope, PA)
- Daniel Medalie (Cleveland, OH)
- Toby Meltzer (Scottsdale, AZ and Portland, OR)
- Rex Moulton-Barrett (San Francisco, CA)
- Michael Obeng (Beverly Hills, CA)
- Haruko Okada (Dublin, OH)
- Omni Cosmetic: Bryan Rolfes, Miles Bichanich, Mitchell Hagen (Minneapolis, MN)
- Dustin Reid (Austin, TX)
- Rukmini Rednam (Houston)
- Angela Rodriguez (San Francisco, CA)
- Kathy Rumer (Ardmore, PA)
- David Sajan (Seattle, WA)
- Christopher Salgado (Miami, FL)
- Russel Sassani (Plantation, FL)
- Drew Schnitt (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
- Mark Schoemann (Encinitas, CA)
- Wesley Schooler (Santa Barbara, CA)
- Alexander Sinclair (Beverly Hills, CA)
- Paul Steinwald (Denver, CO)
- Geoffrey Stiller (Spokane, WA)
- John Taylor (Middletown, NJ)
- Jess Ting (New York, NY)
- UCLA: Gladys Ng, Thomas Gaither, Justine Lee, Wayne Ozaki, Dinesh Chhetri, Michael Holliday, Michael DeLong & George Rudkin (Los Angeles, CA)
- Adam Bryce Weinfeld (Austin, TX)
- John Whitehead, Alain Ramirez and Christian Quintero (Miami, FL)
- Eric Wright (Little Rock, AR)
- Alvina Won (Shoreline, WA)
- Mark Youseff (Santa Monica, CA)
FTM Genital Construction (Phallo, Meta, Scroto)
- AI4PS: Peter Raphael,Alan Dulin, Scott Harris & Alfred Antonetti (Plano, TX)
- Align Surgical Center: Thomas Satterwhite, Dev Gurjala, John Pang, Michael Safir, Paul Mittermiller, Breanna Jedrzejewski (San Francisco & LA, CA)
- Gary Alter (Los Angeles, CA)
- Jens Berli (Portland, OR)
- Adam Bonnington (San Francisco, CA)
- Marci Bowers (Burlingame, CA)
- GRS Montreal: Pierre Brassard, Maud Belanger, Valerie Brousseau, Sarah Eidelson, Alex Laungani, Chen Lee, Dru Perkins and Julien Shine (Montreal, Canada)
- Gregory Buncke, Walter Lin, Bauback Safa and Andrew Watt (San Francisco)
- GC Center: Scott Mosser, Ellie Zara Ley, Daniel Jacobs & Alexander Facque (San Francisco, CA)
- Mang Chen (San Franciso, CA)
- Crane Center: Curtis Crane, Kenan Celtik, Ashley DeLeon,Max Gallegos, Charles Lee, Rachel Goldstein, Gerhard Mundinger, Richard Santucci (San Francisco & Austin)
- Gabriel Del Corral (Baltimore, MD and Washington, DC)
- Nicholas Esmonde and Hema Thakar (Portland, OR)
- Daniel Freet (Houston, TX)
- Sidhbh Gallagher (Miami, FL)
- Johns Hopkins: Armina Azizi, Wendy Chen, Andrew Cohen, Errol Fields, Bashar Hassan, Helene Hedian, Nima Khavanin, Fan Liang (Baltimore, MD)
- Katherine Ghast (Madison, WI)
- GRS Montreal: Pierre Brassard, Maud Belanger, Valerie Brousseau, Sarah Eidelson, Alex Laungani, Chen Lee, Dru Perkins and Julien Shine (Montreal, Canada)
- Dany Hanna (Dallas, Texas)
- Johns Hopkins: Armina Azizi, Wendy Chen, Andrew Cohen, Errol Fields, Bashar Hassan, Helene Hedian, Nima Khavanin, Fan Liang (Baltimore, MD)
- Min Jun (Atherton, CA)
- Ervin Kocjancic (Chicago, IL)
- Nicholas Kim (Minneapolis, MN)
- Rachel Bluebond-Langner (New York)
- Christine McGinn (New Hope, PA)
- Daniel Medalie (Cleveland, OH)
- Toby Meltzer (Scottsdale, AZ and Portland, OR)
- Gladys Ng, Mark Litman, Tamara Grisales and Valentina Rodriguez-Triana (Burbank, CA)
- Dimitriy Nikolavsky (Syracuse, NY) – transgender complications
- Michael Obeng (Beverly Hills, CA)
- Rajveer Purohit (New York, NY)
- Kathy Rumer (Ardmore, PA)
- Gregory Buncke, Walter Lin, Bauback Safa and Andrew Watt (San Francisco, CA)
- Christopher Salgado (Miami, FL)
- Jess Ting (New York, NY)
- UCLA: Gladys Ng, Thomas Gaither, Justine Lee, Wayne Ozaki, Dinesh Chhetri, Michael Holliday, Michael DeLong & George Rudkin (Los Angeles, CA)
- John Whitehead, Alain Ramirez and Christian Quintero (Miami, FL)
- Mark Youseff (Santa Monica, CA)
Voice Surgeons
- Lindsey Clemson Arviso (Dallas, TX)
- Semirra L. Bayan (Rochester, MN)
- Hyung-Tae Kim (Korea)
- GRS Montreal: Pierre Brassard, Maud Belanger, Valerie Brousseau, Sarah Eidelson, Alex Laungani, Chen Lee, Dru Perkins and Julien Shine (Montreal, Canada)
- Mount Sinai Clinic (Various locations)
- Ted Mau (Dallas, TX)
- Omni Cosmetic: Bryan Rolfes, Miles Bichanich, Mitchell Hagen (Minneapolis, MN)
- James Thomas (Portland, OR)
- Vartan Mardirossian (Jupiter, FL)
- Mark Weidenbecher (Stow, OH)
- Kursat Yelken (Istanbul, Turkey)
Pelvic Plasty – Hip Widening
- Dr. You gun Won, Dr. Tae Jin Li and Dr. Sangkyu Choi (Seoul, Korea)
Shoulder Widening or Narrowing
- Dr. Leif Rogers (Beverly Hills, CA)
Limb Lengthening or Shortening
- International Center for Limb Lengthening (Baltimore, MA)
Rib Removal
- Michael Obeng (Beverly Hills, CA)
Hysterectomy, Fibroids & OB/Gyn (also see FTM genital reconstruction surgeons)
- Robert Darrow, M.D. 214-692-8660 (Allen, TX)
- Angelica Knickerbocker (Dallas, TX)
- Amie Napier M.D. (Dallas, TX)
- Kerry Neal, M.D. (Grapevine, TX)
- Suzanne Slonim (Ducanville, TX)
- Women’s Health Associates of Richardson
Transgender Surgery Scholarships To Consider
Hair Removal
- Baruti
- Beverly Hills Hair Free System
- Carolina’s Electrolysis (Richardson)
- Dallas Electrolysis Clinic
- Electrology 3000
- Hair & Now
- Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
No Longer Active or Not Taking Clients
- Michael Bermant, retired
- Stanley Biber, rest in peace
- Daniel Greenwald, rest in peace
- Ted Huang, rest in peace
- Donald Laub, retired
- Sherman Leis, retired
- Yvon Menard, retired (and thank you, he was my GRS surgeon)
- Frank Oliver
- Douglas Ousterhout, retired
- Harold Reed, retired
- Eugene Schrang, rest in peace
- Loren Schecter, retired
- Stanley Taub, retired