What procedures are necessary before FTM surgery?
The patient has followed the guidelines in the Harry Benjamin Gender Identity Disorder Standards of Care (HBGIDSOC) and also has a written referral for SRS by a doctor, psychiatrist, psychiatric social worker, clinical psychologist, or endocrinologist who is a professionally qualified specialist in the field of gender dysphoria or dysmorphia. For more information, please visit the “World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). These standards are to ensure, as much as humanly possible, a positive transition from the surgery to the new life. Dr. Harry Benjamin devised these standards at a conference to determine who was mentally and emotionally able to benefit from sex reassignment surgery.
