Monthly Archives: September 2025

Gender-affirming care is about more than surgery alone—it’s about helping individuals feel fully at home in their bodies. One often overlooked but highly impactful part of this process is surgical tattooing and pigmentation techniques. These procedures can complement gender-affirming surgeries and provide a natural, authentic appearance for trans, nonbinary, and gender-diverse individuals at any stage …

Radial forearm phalloplasty (RFF) has long been regarded as the benchmark technique in microvascular phalloplasty, particularly for gender-affirming genital reconstruction. Despite the emergence of alternative donor sites such as the anterolateral thigh (ALT) or latissimus dorsi, RFF continues to set the standard due to its unmatched reliability, versatility, and functional outcomes. Microsurgical Reliability and Vascular …

Dr. Michael Safir of Align Surgical Associates recently hosted an Instagram Live session focused on metoidioplasty, a gender-affirming procedure. Throughout the discussion, Dr. Safir clarifies what metoidioplasty entails, how to prepare for candidacy, and the most common concerns patients express. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cp5rvT4vSU Caption/subtitle instructions: To turn on subtitles, turn on closed captioning (CC icon), located at …