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Gender Surgery Clinic at Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre

The Gender Surgery Program B.C., including the Gender Surgery Clinic, opened at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) in September 2019, making the Gender Surgery Program B.C. Western Canada's only program performing lower gender-affirming surgeries for transgender and gender-diverse people.

The referral and surgical journey

  • Get a referral

    Your primary care provider sends a referral, including your two completed surgical readiness assessments, to the Gender Surgery Program’s clinic at VGH.

    Lower surgery referral form (print)

    Lower surgery referral form (fillable)

    Forms will need to be printed and submitted by fax to (604) 875-5075

  • After completed referral

    After the GSPBC receives a fully completed referral, patients are placed on an extensive, first come first serve waitlist dependent on their surgical type.

  • Intake and surgical consult

    Patients will be booked for an intake appointment over the phone with one of the GSPBC Nurses. The purpose of this session is to confirm your medical history, and get a full sense of how best we can support you. At a later date, you will then meet with a surgeon either in person, or via zoom. They help provide more information about your surgery, answer questions, and help determine steps to move towards surgical readiness. For many, this includes starting on the process of hair removal.

  • Hair removal

    The process of hair removal takes different amounts of time for each person, dependent on the type of surgery and your individual body (this can take up to 18 months). GSPBC is working in partnership with Trans Care BC to track hair removal progress.  Trans Care BC will connect with patients and inform GSPBC once hair removal is near completion. Patients are then scheduled for a second surgical consult. *Please note that if Trans Care BC and GSPBC are not able to reach you this may result in a discharge from the surgical program. To avoid this please ensure to keep your contact information up to date and check your voicemail and email regularly.

  • Second surgical consult

    This consultation is a check-in on your surgical readiness and helps to determine if any additional steps are needed. If all steps are completed, you are deemed surgically ready and added to a wait list for surgery. Please note the second surgical consult is often completed in person and may require a physical examination that can include one of the surgeons looking at your current genitals to help plan for your surgery.

Hours of operation

Currently open
  • Monday:   8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
  • Tuesday:   8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
  • Wednesday:   8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
  • Thursday:   8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
  • Friday:   8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
  • Saturday:   Closed
  • Sunday:   Closed

How to get here

The Gender Surgery Program B.C. Gender Surgery Clinic is located on the 7th floor of the Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre

Pay parking is available at our two visitor lots located on the VGH campus:

  • The VGH parkade at the corner of West 12th Avenue and Laurel Street, across from the main entrance of the Jim Pattison Pavilion. There is a wheelchair-accessible overpass from the VGH parkade at Level 4 and a crosswalk at Level 2.
  • The Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre underground parking lot located off of Laurel Street between West 10th and West 12th Avenues.

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Vancouver General Hospital (VGH)

Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) offers specialized health-care services to residents in Vancouver and across the province through regional programs. We provide a full range of basic and highly specialized emergency health-care and trauma services to British Columbia.

The Gender Surgery Program B.C.

The Gender Surgery Program B.C., including the Gender Surgery Clinic, opened at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) in September 2019, making the Gender Surgery Program B.C. Western Canada's only program performing lower gender-affirming surgeries for transgender and gender-diverse people.