Among transgender patients who were assigned male at birth, facial characteristics have been reported to be one of the highest sources of dysphoria. The study suggests that gender-affirming surgery is one of the most important procedures for the treatment of patients with gender dysphoria, the psychological distress that results from the incongruence between one's sex assigned at birth and one's gender identity. They found that people who had received the surgery reported higher scores in seven of 11 measures of psychosocial health - anxiety, anger, depression, global mental health, positive affect, social isolation, and meaning and purpose - than those who had not yet had the surgery. Researchers compared mental health assessments for 107 patients who were awaiting surgery with those of 62 people who had already completed it, an average of a little more than 6 1/2 months after their procedures.
"Our findings have the potential to change health insurance policies for the better for transgender patients." is more limited than gender-affirming surgeries of other anatomic regions due to a lack of data on mental health quality-of-life outcomes," said Lee, who was the study's lead author and is an associate professor of surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. "Access to facial gender-affirming surgeries under health insurance coverage in the U.S.
Sarnat Professor of Craniofacial Biology, gender-affirming facial surgery is frequently classified by insurers as a cosmetic procedure, in part because of a lack of evidence that the procedure improves patients' quality of life. The study was published in the journal Annals of Surgery.Īccording to Dr.
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