Mayo Clinic's approach
Teamwork
The Transgender and Intersex Specialty Care Clinic (TISCC) provides integrated medical, psychosocial and surgical intervention to individuals with gender dysphoria or incongruence and to those with differences of sexual development, also called intersex. The team includes providers from various specialties including endocrinology, pediatric endocrinology, social work, psychiatry, psychology, voice therapy, gynecology, urology and plastic surgery.
Treatments offered include:
- Behavioral health assessment and management
- Gender-affirming hormone therapy
- Assistance with social and legal issues and referrals to community resources
- Fertility preservation
- Referrals for sexually transmitted infection screening and preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP)
- Gender-affirming voice therapy
- Electrolysis and laser hair removal
- Hair transplant
- Gynecological care for trans men
- Chaplain services
- Preoperative and postoperative pelvic floor physical therapy
- Feminizing surgical procedures:
- Breast augmentation
- Facial feminization
- Tracheal shave
- Body-contouring procedures
- Orchiectomy
- Vaginoplasty and labioplasty
- Robot-assisted peritoneal flap vaginoplasty
- Masculinizing surgical procedures:
- Mastectomy with chest masculinization
- Body-contouring procedures
- Hysterectomy and oophorectomy
- Metoidioplasty
Before you start treatment, you meet with at least one member of the TISCC medical team — a physician, a physician assistant or a nurse practitioner — and a member of the TISCC mental health team, such as a social worker, psychologist or psychiatrist. You have a complete medical evaluation to make sure that your treatment risks are identified and addressed. Before a surgical procedure, you're seen by the appropriate TISCC surgical team. Evaluation of your mental health ensures that any mood or mental health concerns are reasonably well managed before you start treatment.
Each person is different. Your providers look at your specific case to make the best recommendations for you. Your health care team works with you during your treatment to make sure your expectations are realistic. Your team wants to be sure your goals are being met, any risks are managed and your questions are answered.
Advanced technology
Mayo Clinic specialists are committed to providing the latest, most comprehensive treatment options for gender dysphoria. Your Mayo Clinic specialist's advice about the best treatment for you is based on expert knowledge of and experience with all treatment options for gender dysphoria.
Expertise and rankings
At Mayo Clinic, endocrinologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, nurse practitioners, social workers and surgeons work together to provide the care you need.
Having all of this expertise in a single place, focused on you, means that you're not just getting one opinion. Your care is discussed among the team, your test results are available quickly and your appointments are scheduled in coordination. Highly specialized experts are all working together to help determine what's best for you.
Locations, travel and lodging
Mayo Clinic has major campuses in Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona; Jacksonville, Florida; and Rochester, Minnesota. The Mayo Clinic Health System has dozens of locations in several states.
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Costs and insurance
Mayo Clinic works with hundreds of insurance companies and is an in-network provider for millions of people.
In most cases, Mayo Clinic doesn't require a physician referral. Some insurers require referrals or may have additional requirements for certain medical care. All appointments are prioritized on the basis of medical need.
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