A Look Back: When did gender-affirming surgery start in the US?
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While groundbreaking publicly known surgeries occurred in the mid-20th century, the history of gender-affirming surgery in the U.S. dates back even further, with one of the earliest documented cases being a transgender man in 1917. The journey of when did gender-affirming surgery start in the US reveals a long history of both medical innovation and social challenges.