More transgender residents in SF connected with in-demand surgeonshttp://www.sfexaminer.com/transgender-residents-sf-connected-demand-surgeons/The San Francisco Examiner/By Michael Barba on March 16, 2016 1:00 am
"More transgender residents in San Francisco are having sexual reassignment surgeries through a city program that streamlines the lengthy and complicated medical process for people whose bodies don't match their identities.
Transgender Health Services started in 2013 as a city program that paid for sexual reassignment surgery for uninsured residents with gender dysphoria, also known as gender identity disorder. The program was the first of its kind in the nation, according to its director Julie Graham.
"Nothing like this existed in the U.S. The people who were doing these surgeries were in Europe or Canada," said Graham, who noted that transgender people who received operations in the U.S. before the program would pay between $30,000 and $100,000. "It wasn't something that was widely available to people," she said."
