Since I've been getting quite a number of PM's concerning GSA I wanted to get some information out.

GSA is restructuring their international patient department a well as their website.

Ever since i published the information about Dr. Bouman and team on my German website they are getting countless inquiries and try to keep up with it as best as they can.

There is a new international patient coordinator named Belinda Roerig-Haenen and she is at the office 3 days a week ATM.

She or GSA Amsterdam can be reached under:
ec@jvg.nl
or
BRoerig-Haenen@ecamsterdam.nl
or
gendersurgeryamsterdam@gmail.com

to make appointments for consultations, applications for SRS, and all general inquiries.

Please allow for several workdays of reply-time - and should that not happen please mail them again. Mail filters can have some very strange behavior.

Hi Mona!

I've took a look on your website and I'm wondering why you don't recommend the GSA anymore. There are so many surgeons and I'm wondering where I should go to.

Because Dr. Heß in Essen (Germany) isn't far from Amsterdam and he does the same techniques (advanced and traditional PI, as well as colon surgery), I'm wondering, why Amsterdam would be better or worse.

Is GSA (Amsterdam) worse than Olmec (India) or PAI (Thailand)?

Thanks a lot for explaining and helping a lot here on Susan's!

Sweet greetings
Daria


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Hi Mona,

I have a curious question. I am originally from the Netherlands but live in the USA since 1988, so I am familiar with the medical insurance from that time period. (ziekenfonds)

It is my understanding that the medical healthcare in the Netherlands is still somewhat like the "old ziekenfonds", and in order to get surgery you will have to go trough their rules. Anyway, my experience her in the USA is that it's all for profit based, aka, I go find the surgeon and pay her fee. (no problem, that's what I gladly did)

So my question is, can anyone regardless of citizenship and residence, go see the surgeon in Amsterdam and pay for the surgery herself, without going trough the whole procedure, and just providing the required letters?

Again, this is just out of curiosity since I already have had my GRS/SRS.

Alvast bedankt voor je antwoord (thank you in advance), Erin.

Hi Erin,

You're not far off, see the current situation below.

GSA is an attempt of Bouman en Buncamper to provide GCS without going through the whole medical process of the 2 hospitals that provide transgender healthcare. But from what I have heard they are just in it to make some extra cash.

Normally the only way to get GCS in the Netherlands is at the hospitals in Amsterdam or Groningen. Both ignore the WPATH  standards and have their own procedure. Existing of a waiting list (currently more than 2 years), go through diagnostics (that takes at least 6 months), another waiting list (2-6 months), start getting HRT through them with a full-time period of a year (they ignore HRT that was provided by other healthcare professionals). And after all that you are allowed to be put on the wait list for GCS if your psychologist approves and the if hair removal has been sufficient.

In the current Dutch trans communities for those who can pay for the surgery, the most popular surgeons are currently Chettawut(Thailand) and Dr. Shaff (Germany).

thank you so much Stella92 for your quick clear answer.