Joshua Riverdale (left) meets with surgeon Dr. Jens Berli in May 2018, for a post-surgery follow-up. Oregon Health & Science University’s Transgender Health Program launched in 2015 to ensure patients receive respectful and quality health care, regardless of their gender identity. Caring for more than 6,000 adult and youth transgender patients, OHSU has one of the largest and most comprehensive transgender health programs in the U.S. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

Blair Peters, M.D., an assistant professor of surgery in the OHSU School of Medicine and a plastic surgeon who specializes in gender-affirming care as part of the OHSU Transgender Health Program, obtained clitoral nerve tissue from seven adult transmasculine volunteers who underwent gender-affirming genital surgery for clitoral nerve research. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

Daniel Dugi, M.D., FACS, co-founder of the Oregon Health & Science University's Transgender Health Program and its surgical medical director. Dugi is one of a handful of reconstructive urologists who primarily focus on gender-affirming genital procedures, such as vaginoplasties, for vaginal construction. (OHSU/Fritz Liedtke)

Jae Downing, Ph.D., is using methodologies that avoid erasing transgender and gender diverse people from research. That includes an inclusive approach to study design and conducting research in ways that reflect the needs and issues of sexual and gender minorities. (OHSU/Casey Williamson)

Geolani Dy, M.D., has focused her research on studying outcomes of Gender-Affirming Genital Surgery for transgender- and non-binary-identifying individuals from the patient and community perspective. She poses here in the OHSU Urology clinic on Wednesday, April 27, 2022. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

Geolani Dy, M.D. is assistant professor of Urology at the OHSU School of Medicine. Dy has focused her research on studying outcomes of Gender-Affirming Genital Surgery for transgender- and non-binary-identifying individuals from the patient and community perspective. She poses here in the OHSU Urology clinic on Wednesday, April 27, 2022. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)