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. For American Institute for Plastic Surgery in Plano, for top/bottom surgery, the new requirement is to have 6 months of counseling (1x/month) and to live in desired gender role for as long. Some insurance companies are now requiring 18-24 months. Every case is unique. My belief is that you should only have surgery when you are ready, in good mental health and able to consent. I ask for a minimum of two sessions so I can get to know you, and more if you aren’t quite ready or have mental health to work through. 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 & 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
MTF Facial Feminization Surgeons
- Gary Alter (Beverly Hills, CA)
- Bardia Amirlak (Dallas, TX)
- Nicholas Bastidas (New York, NY)
- Joel Beck (San Francisco, CA)
- 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)
- Curtis Crane, Ashley DeLeon, Min Jun,Michael Safir, 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)
- Barry Eppley (Carmel, IN)
- Mark Filstein (New York, NY)
- Beverly Fisher (Lutherville-Timonium, MD)
- Daniel Freet (Houston, TX)
- Katherine Ghast (Madison, WI)
- Dev Gurujal and Thomas Satterwhite (San Francisco, CA)
- Josef Hadeed (Beverly Hills, CA and Miami, FL)
- Richard Huynh (Irvine, CA)
- 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)
- Sherman Leis (Philadelphia, PA)
- Keelee MacPhee (Durham, NC)
- Vartan Mardirossian (Jupiter, FL)
- Toby Mayer (Beverly Hills, CA)
- Toby Meltzer & Nick Esmonde (Scottsdale, AZ and Portland, OR)
- Scott Mosser, Ellie Zara Ley, Daniel Jacobs & Alexander Facque (San Francisco, CA)
- Tuan Nguyen (Lake Oswego, OR)
- Michael Obeng (Beverly Hills, CA)
- Parit Patel (Chicago, IL)
- Stephen Pincus (Beverly Hills, CA)
- Peter Raphael,Alan Dulin, Scott Harris (Plano, TX)
- Regina Rodman (Houston, TX)
- Angela Rodriguez (Greenbrae, CA)
- Bryan Rolfes (Minneapolis, MN)
- Kathy Rumer (Ardmore, PA)
- David Sajan (Seattle, WA)
- Christopher Salgado (Miami, FL)
- Sarah Saxon (Austin, TX)
- Loren Schecter (Morton Grove, IL)
- Mark Schoemann (Encinitas, CA)
- Rahul Seth & Daniel Knott (San Francisco, CA)
- Alexander Sinclair (Beverly Hills, CA)
- Jeffrey Spiegel (Boston, MA)
- Geoffrey Stiller (Spokane, WA)
- Angela Sturm (Houston, TX)
- Vartan Mardirossian (Jupiter, FL)
- Sol Mundinger (NOLA) (New Orleans, LA)
- Jess Ting (New York, NY)
- Ali Totonchi (Cleveland, OH)
- Gregory Turowski and Aditya Sood (Skokie, IL)
- R. Scott Yarish (Houston, TX)
- Mark Youseff (Santa Monica, CA)
- Adam Bryce Weinfeld (Austin, TX)
- Mark Zukowski (Chicago, IL)
MTF Gender Reassignment Surgeons
- Gary Alter (Beverly Hills, CA)
- Maud Belanger (Montreal, Canada)
- Rachel Bluebond-Langner (New York)
- Adam Bonnington (San Francisco, CA)
- Marci Bowers (Burlingame, CA)
- Pierre Brassard (Canada)
- Gabriel Del Corral (Baltimore, MD and Washington, DC)
- Curtis Crane, Ashley DeLeon, Min Jun,Michael Safir, Richard Santucci (San Francisco & Austin)
- Daniel Freet (Houston, TX)
- Sidhbh Gallagher (Miami, FL)
- Maurice Garcia (Los Angeles, CA)
- Katherine Ghast (Madison, WI)
- Dev Gurujal and Thomas Satterwhite (San Francisco, CA)
- Josef Hadeed (Orchiectomy, Miami & Beverly Hills)
- Dany Hanna (Dallas, Texas)
- Stanton Honig (New Haven, CT)
- Richard Huynh (Irvine, CA)
- Min Jun (San Francisco, CA)
- Nicholas Kim (Minneapolis, MN)
- Ervin Kocjancic (Chicago, IL)
- Justine Lee (Los Angeles, CA)
- Sherman Leis (Philadelphia, PA)
- Keelee MacPhee (Durham, NC)
- Christine McGinn (New Hope, PA)
- Toby Meltzer & Nick Esmonde (Scottsdale, AZ and Portland, OR)
- Sol Mundinger (NOLA) (New Orleans, LA)
- Gladys Ng, Mark Litman, Tamara Grisales and Valentina Rodriguez-Triana (Burbank, CA)
- Tuan Nguyen (Lake Oswego, OR)
- Michael Obeng (Beverly Hills, CA)
- Devin O’Brien-Coon (Baltimore, MD)
- Peter Raphael (Plano, TX)
- Rajveer Purohit (New York, NY)
- Angela Rodriguez (Greenbrae, CA)
- Timothy Ruddle (Sherman, TX) – orchiectomy only
- Kathy Rumer (Ardmore, PA)
- Christopher Salgado (Miami, FL)
- Nabeel Sayed (Orchiectomy only)
- Loren Schecter (Morton Grove, IL)
- Alexander Sinclair (Beverly Hills, CA)
- Geoffrey Stiller (Spokane, WA)
- John Taylor (Middletown, NJ)
- Jess Ting (New York, NY)
- John Whitehead, Alain Ramirez and Christian Quintero (Miami, FL)
- Jonathan Winograd (Boston, MA)
- Heidi Wittenberg (San Francisco, CA)
- Mark Youseff (Santa Monica, CA)
FTM Facial Masculinization
- 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)
- Barry Eppley (Carmel, IN)
- Beverly Fisher (Lutherville-Timonium, MD)
- Daniel Freet (Houston, TX)
- Josef Hadeed (Miami & Beverly Hills)
- Susan Kaweski (San Diego, CA)
- Michelle Lee (Beverly Hills, CA)
- Sherman Leis (Philadelphia, PA)
- Scott Mosser, Ellie Zara Ley, Daniel Jacobs & Alexander Facque (San Francisco, CA)
- Sol Mundinger (NOLA) (New Orleans, LA)
- Michael Obeng (Beverly Hills, CA)
- David Sajan (Seattle, WA)
- Christopher Salgado (Miami, FL)
- Mark Youseff (Santa Monica, CA)
FTM Chest Reconstruction
- 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)
- Gabriel Del Corral (Baltimore, MD and Washington, DC)
- Curtis Crane, Ashley DeLeon, Min Jun,Michael Safir, Richard Santucci (San Francisco & Austin)
- Miguel Delgado (San Francisco, CA)
- Heather Faulkner (Boston, MA)
- Beverly Fisher (Lutherville-Timonium, MD)
- Daniel Freet (Houston, TX)
- Sidhbh Gallagher (Miami, FL)
- Charles Garramone (Davie, FL) (He also does a nonbinary top surg.)
- Katherine Ghast (Madison, WI)
- Dany Hanna (Dallas, Texas)
- Sean Hill (Frisco, TX)
- William Hoffman (San Francisco, CA)
- Elliot Jacobs (New York, NY)
- Melissa Johnson (Springfield, MA)
- Nicholas Kim (Minneapolis, MN)
- Clifford King (Madison, WI)
- Gary Lawton (San Antonio, TX)
- Justine Lee (Los Angeles, CA)
- Sherman Leis (Philadelphia, PA)
- Sheldon Lincenberg (Atlanta, GA)
- Alan Dulin, Scott Harris, Peter Raphael (Plano, TX)
- Josef Hadeed (Beverly Hills, CA and Miami, FL)
- Keelee MacPhee (Durham, NC)
- Tony Mangubat (Tukwila, WA)
- Daniel Medalie (Cleveland, OH)
- Toby Meltzer & Nick Esmonde (Scottsdale, AZ and Portland, OR)
- Scott Mosser, Ellie Zara Ley, Daniel Jacobs & Alexander Facque (San Francisco, CA)
- Rex Moulton-Barrett (San Francisco, CA)
- Sol Mundinger (NOLA) (New Orleans, LA)
- Michael Obeng (Beverly Hills, CA)
- Devin O’Brien-Coon (Baltimore, MD)
- Dustin Reid (Austin, TX)
- Rukmini Rednam (Houston)
- Angela Rodriguez (Greenbrae, CA)
- Bryan Rolfes (Minneapolis, MN)
- Kathy Rumer (Ardmore, PA)
- Dev Gurujal and Thomas Satterwhite (San Francisco, CA)
- Christopher Salgado (Miami, FL)
- Russel Sassani (Plantation, FL)
- Loren Schecter (Morton Grove, IL)
- 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)
- 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 Reconstruction
- Gary Alter (Los Angeles, CA)
- Jens Berli (Portland, OR)
- Adam Bonnington (San Francisco, CA)
- Marci Bowers (Burlingame, CA)
- Pierre Brassard and Maud Bélanger (Montreal, CA)
- Gregory Buncke, Walter Lin, Bauback Safa and Andrew Watt (San Francisco)
- Curtis Cetrulo (Boston, MA) (Possible first penis transplant coming soon!)
- Mang Chen (San Franciso, CA)
- Curtis Crane, Ashley DeLeon, Min Jun,Michael Safir, Richard Santucci (San Francisco & Austin)
- Gabriel Del Corral (Baltimore, MD and Washington, DC)
- Alan Dulin, Scott Harris, Peter Raphael (Plano, TX)
- Daniel Freet (Houston, TX)
- Sidhbh Gallagher (Miami, FL)
- Katherine Ghast (Madison, WI)
- Dev Gurujal and Thomas Satterwhite (San Francisco, CA)
- Dany Hanna (Dallas, Texas)
- Ervin Kocjancic (Chicago, IL)
- Nicholas Kim (Minneapolis, MN)
- Sherman Leis (Philadelphia, PA)
- Christine McGinn (New Hope, PA)
- Daniel Medalie (Cleveland, OH)
- Toby Meltzer & Nick Esmonde (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)
- Devin O’Brien-Coon (Baltimore, MD)
- 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)
- Loren Schechter (Morton Grove, IL)
- Jess Ting (New York, NY)
- 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)
- Mount Sinai Clinic (Various locations)
- Vartan Mardirossian (Jupiter, FL)
- Ted Mau (Dallas, TX)
- James Thomas (Portland, OR)
- Kursat Yelken (Istanbul, Turkey)
- Hyung-Tae Kim (Korea)
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)
Hysterectomy, Fibroids & OB/Gyn (also see FTM genital reconstruction surgeons)
- Robert Darrow, M.D. 214-692-8660 (Allen, TX)
- Amie Napier M.D. (Dallas, TX)
- Kerry Neal, M.D. (Grapevine, TX)
- Suzanne Slonim (Ducanville, TX)
- Women’s Health Associates of Richardson
Pelvic Floor & Physical Therapy Concerns
- Athletico (request Tonda Berry, PT), 469-620-5070 (Dallas, TX)
Hair Transplant – Male and Female
- Sam Lam (Plano, TX)
- Kathy Rumer (Ardmore, PA)
Insurance Carriers to Choose
- HRC Trans Health Insurance Coverage (A bit dated)
Transgender Surgery Scholarships To Consider
Hair Removal
- Baruti
- Beverly Hills Hair Free System
- Carolina’s Electrolysis
- Dallas Electrolysis Clinic
- Electrology 3000
- Hair & Now
- Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
- Unique Spa Services
Surgeon Listings
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
- Yvon Menard, retired (and thank you, he was my GRS surgeon)
- Frank Oliver
- Douglas Ousterhout, retired
- Harold Reed, retired
- Eugene Schrang, rest in peace
- Stanley Taub, retired