British Columbia will soon become the first province in Western Canada to provide publicly funded gender-affirming lower surgeries.

These procedures, along with expanded coverage of chest and breast procedures, will be offered to transgender people across the province starting in 2019.

A total of 14 surgeons will provide these surgeries in Burnaby, Kamloops, Kelowna, Port Moody, Prince George, Vancouver and Victoria.

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Gender-affirming lower surgeries will be done within Vancouver Coastal Health beginning in 2019. BC will be the first province in western Canada to provide them.

Previously, people had to travel to Vancouver or Victoria to receive publicly funded gender-affirming breast augmentation or chest construction procedures.

To get lower surgery, people were forced to travel to Montreal or even out of the country.

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