Gender Affirming Surgery with Dr Blair Peters

Sex, Body, and Soul

Kate Roberts

Education, Relationships, Sexuality, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Medicine is finally starting to catch up with the times, but there's a long way to go. On this show we talk with Dr Blair Peters, a board certified surgeon who specializes in gender affirming surgery. Historically, a majority of gender-affirming surgeries had been performed, in a sense, behind closed doors -- barely visible and hidden away from mainstream academic medicine. Dr Peter's is not just one of the first surgeons trained in gender fellowship, he is at one of the few centres in the country performing phalloplasty. Dr Peters is also an incredible advocate for the LGBTQIA community for equal rights in gender alignment healthcare.

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0:00.0	people are saying like, oh, pre-pubescent kids are getting surgery and children are getting
0:04.5	surgery. And like none of that stuff is happening. Like anyone under the age of 18 that is getting
0:09.9	surgery, it's usually chest surgery after many, many, many years being supported in a multidisciplinary
0:17.2	program with family support. And the reason that they're often getting that
0:21.2	procedure is because they were denied or didn't have access to early enough pubertal suppression
0:25.5	or medical care. Welcome to sex, body, and soul. I'm Kate Roberts, founder of the body agency.
0:32.5	And on this show, we talk about the marvel that is our bodies, what they can do and what they need to thrive.
0:39.6	Ladies out there, our time is now. Let's get to it.
0:44.7	Excited to have on the show, Dr. Blair Peters. He, they, is an assistant professor in both the
0:51.3	Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Department of
0:54.5	Urology at Organ Health and Science University. He's a board-certified plastic surgeon with
1:01.0	dual fellowship training. He is also one of the first surgeons in North America to complete
1:06.5	an additional fellowship in comprehensive gender-affirming surgery. A large part of his practice
1:12.9	focuses on phaloplasti and vaginoplasti surgery, which basically means he builds penises and vaginas
1:21.9	with a special emphasis on nerves. He is also a very strong advocate for the LGBTQIA community. Welcome to the show,
1:32.0	the fabulous Dr. Blair Peters. Dr. Blair Peters, welcome to the show. Hi, thanks for having me.
1:40.3	Well, it's wonderful to have you and thank you for the work that you do because you change
1:47.3	lives. I've spent a lot of time researching what you do and how you do it and it's just absolutely
1:53.4	fascinating. So I'm so thrilled to have you on the show to talk about gender reaffirming surgery and everything that goes with it. So my first
2:05.5	question is just tell us a little bit about you. For the listeners who can't see Blair, he is
2:12.1	amazingly cute and he has pink hair. And so for me, that's already, like, I fell in love with you at
2:20.4	my immediate side, but more importantly than how we look, the work that you do is incredible.
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