Clinics should be ready for further changes in children's sex, says the hospital director

Dr. Oren Ganor, the director of Boston Children’s Hospital’s gender surgery department, has called on similar institutions to increase their capacity to perform underage gender surgeries, as Republican-run states begin to clamp down on the practices. He and Harvard Medical School student Shawheen Rezei predicted that “physicians who provide [gender-affirming care] will face a great burden due to constraints in certain states.” Dr. Ganor called for more clinics to be opened to improve capacity for this patient population, and recommended that medical schools “increase training efforts” and expose more trainee plastic surgeons to sex change operations during their study. West Virginia Governor Jim Justice signed a bill last week banning so-called gender-affirming care for minors except in certain narrow circumstances, and some 11 US states have passed similar legislation since 2021, while nearly two dozen more are considering bans this year. Dr. Ganor is a plastic and reconstructive surgeon who leads the Center for Gender Surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital, which has become a lightning-rod for controversy due to its offer of “vaginoplasty” to 17-year-