{"id":10211,"date":"2026-02-03T23:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T23:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/gender-affirming-surgeries-delay-until-age-19-plastic-surgeon-association-says\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T23:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T23:02:19","slug":"gender-affirming-surgeries-delay-until-age-19-plastic-surgeon-association-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/gender-affirming-surgeries-delay-until-age-19-plastic-surgeon-association-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic surgeons society recommends delaying gender-affirming procedures until age 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Plastic surgeons society recommends delaying gender-affirming procedures until age 19<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) recommends that gender-affirming surgeries be delayed until a patient is at least 19 years old, the group announced in a statement Tuesday. The statement, made by the group\u2019s board of directors, represents a break from major U.S. medical groups that have supported the care, and applies to facial, chest, and genital procedures performed for transgender and nonbinary patients.<\/p>\n<p>The group, a professional association with more than 11,000 physician members, emphasized that the statement was not a clinical practice guideline but instead \u201cprofessional guidance\u201d for care the group said was \u201crapidly evolving and controversial.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/02\/03\/gender-affirming-surgeries-delay-until-age-19-plastic-surgeon-association-says\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Daniel Payne and Theresa Gaffney<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/02\/03\/gender-affirming-surgeries-delay-until-age-19-plastic-surgeon-association-says\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plastic surgeons society recommends delaying gender-affirming procedures until age 19 WASHINGTON \u2014 The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) recommends that gender-affirming surgeries be delayed until a patient is at least 19 years old, the group announced in a statement Tuesday. The statement, made by the group\u2019s board of directors, represents a break from major [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1428,2147,2470,2314,2144,2451],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-10211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-hhs","category-lgbtq","category-physicians","category-politics","category-sexual-health","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}