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Travelling abroad for gender-affirming surgery

People look outside their home country for gender-affirming surgery for practical reasons: multi-year waiting lists at home, the cost of self-funding privately, or a specific surgeon whose volume and technique for a particular procedure they want. This page lists a small number of facilities and surgeon practices outside Thailand so you can start your own research. It endorses no provider, ranks no one, and is not medical advice.

Providers

Thailand Care

Bangkok, Thailand · medical-travel agency

Thailand Care is a Bangkok-based medical-travel agency that arranges gender-affirming surgery for international patients at JCI-accredited hospitals in Thailand. It matches the patient with a surgeon experienced in the specific procedure, books the operation and hospital stay, and organises the consultation, quotation, interpreting, accommodation, and post-operative aftercare. The agency coordinates the care pathway; the surgery is performed by the partner hospital's surgeons.

Accreditation: Partner hospitals hold JCI

Based in: Bangkok, Thailand

Belgrade Center for Genital Reconstructive Surgery (Dr. Miroslav Djordjevic)

Belgrade, Serbia · surgeon practice

This surgeon practice performs genital reconstructive procedures including metoidioplasty and phalloplasty for gender-affirming patients.

Accreditation: Professor of Urology, University of Belgrade; WPATH member

Klinik Sanssouci

Potsdam, Germany · clinic

Klinik Sanssouci carries out feminising genital and facial gender-affirming surgery and has more than twenty years of experience in the field.

Accreditation: lead surgeons are WPATH members

IM GENDER (Dr. Ivan Mañero)

Barcelona, Spain · clinic

IM GENDER offers a range of gender-affirming procedures including vaginoplasty, phalloplasty, metoidioplasty, and facial and body feminisation.

Accreditation: established gender-surgery unit; 20+ years

Facialteam (HC Marbella International Hospital)

Marbella, Spain · clinic

Facialteam focuses on facial feminisation surgery, including forehead, jaw, nose, and tracheal procedures, within HC Marbella International Hospital.

Accreditation: specialised FFS centre within HC Marbella International Hospital

Listing order is not a ranking. This is general information, not a recommendation of any individual provider.