Transgender operations nearly tripled from 2016 to 2019 due to Obama-era policies: studyBy Melissa Koenig
August 24, 2023
The number of gender surgeries in the US nearly tripled in the three years up until 2019 — driven by insurance policy changes introduced by former President Barack Obama, a new study says.
Only around 4,550 Americans sought such sex-change surgeries in 2016 — a number that shot up to more than 13,000 by 2019, according to a Columbia University study published Wednesday in JAMA Network Open.
“Consistent with prior studies, we identified a remarkable increase in the number” of such procedures, study author Dr. Jason Wright wrote.
“These findings suggest that the number of procedures performed in the US has increased dramatically, nearly tripling from 2016 to 2019.”
The rise followed the number of procedures doubling at least twice before, between 2000 to 2005 and again from 2006 to 2011, Wright wrote, citing previous studies.
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