Gender-Affirming Care
Comprehensive primary and specialty care for gender and transgender health
Addressing Your Gender Health Needs
The Gender Health Program at Lahey Clinic is a comprehensive care center offering gender-affirming care to transgender and gender-diverse adults. The Gender Health Program provides both medical and surgical services in a safe and affirming environment.
Gender-Affirming Medical and Surgical Treatments
We bring together specialists from across multiple disciplines to care for patients at every stage of their transition and beyond, offering hormone therapy, surgical options and comprehensive management of existing medical conditions.
Medical Care Options
Our Gender Health team offers a wide range of medical care options, including:
- Counseling and mental health services: Our behavioral health specialists listen to your concerns. Throughout your care journey we offer counseling services that include letters of support for surgery and hormones.
- Dermatology: Our dermatologists offer medical, surgical and cosmetic services to treat conditions that affect the skin, nails and hair for gender-diverse adults.
- Endocrinology: Our endocrinologists provide adult gender-affirming hormone therapy, as well as general endocrinology, such as diabetes, thyroid and osteoporosis management.
- Medical weight loss: Achieving a healthy weight supports your overall health and can improve outcomes across many aspects of your care. Our team offers medical, nutritional and lifestyle support to help you reach and maintain a weight that works for your body and your goals.
- Physical therapy: Our therapists provide specialized, individualized care for the full range of musculoskeletal needs — from pelvic floor dysfunction to joint, muscle and movement issues — in a gender-affirming environment.
- Primary care: Doctors, physician assistants and nurse practitioners deliver the full range of primary and gender-affirming care to transgender and gender-diverse adults, including hormone therapy management.
- Sexual health: Our primary care, urology and gynecology teams can discuss options regarding contraception management and fertility preservation options.
- Speech and voice therapy: Our experts work with you to achieve your voice and communication goals with behavioral, medical and surgical interventions.
Surgical Care Options
The Lahey Gender Health team offers a wide range of reconstructive surgical care. Treatments include:
- Facial surgery: Our plastic surgeons provide a full range of facial procedures to meet your gender-affirming goals.
- Genital surgery: Our plastic and urological surgeons offer primary gender-affirming genital surgeries and revision surgeries including prosthetics.
- Hysterectomy: Our gynecologic experts treat abnormal uterine bleeding and screen for cervical cancer. They also provide minimally invasive hysterectomy for gender-affirmation.
- Top surgery: Our plastic surgeons provide feminizing and masculinizing top surgery for adults.
