‘A Gut Punch’: Trans Tennesseans React to VUMC Stopping Gender-Affirming Surgeries

Vanderbilt To Drop Major Gender-Affirming Surgeries For Trans Adults

Image courtesy of Vanderbilt Medical Center via Globe NewswireErin In The Morning is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a subscriber.Confusion, dread, and betrayal—these are the emotions flooding trans patients at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, as their health care options wane once again.“Due to operational limitations and lack of surgical coverage, Vand…

Vanderbilt University announces end to transgender surgeries for adults

Legislation currently pending in the Tennessee legislature would ban the state’s TennCare medicaid program from covering ‘transition’ surgeries at any age.

Vanderbilt Will Stop Providing Gender-Affirming Surgeries to Trans Adults

The hospital cited “operational limitations” for the decision.

After Boasting About $40K Trans Surgeries, Vanderbilt Health Reverses Course

Just a few years after boasting about how transgender surgeries were “huge money makers,” Vanderbilt University Medical Center will no longer perform the procedures. The Nashville-based health care center confirmed to The Daily Wire that the surgeries, which include procedures like crafting pseudo-genitalia for gender-confused individuals and removing the breasts of women who identify as men, were being phased out for logistical reasons. “Due to…

Vanderbilt University Medical Center to No Longer Perform ‘Gender-Affirming’ Surgeries on Adults

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has confirmed it will no longer perform “gender-affirming” plastic surgeries on adult patients.

‘A gut punch’: Trans Tennesseans react to VUMC stopping gender-affirming surgeries

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is ending gender-affirming surgeries for adults, a decision advocates said will make access to care even more limited in Tennessee.