Harold Morgan Reed (born October 25, 1940) is an American reconstructive urologist and cosmetic surgeon known for his pioneering work with transgender and gender diverse people.
Reed was a diplomat of the American Board of Urology and a board certified surgeon. He was a Member of WPATH (formerly HBIGDA) and performed bottom surgery.
The Reed Centre (srsmiami.com) [archive]
Restore (restoremedcenter.com)
Gary J. Alter is an American plastic surgeon who has been a longtime supporter of our community. He has headquarters in Beverly Hills as well as offices in New York and Dubai. I suggest giving him strong consideration for your needs, as he is very experienced. I personally know several satisfied patients. He was also a major supporter of our first all-transgender performance of The Vagina Monologues in 2004. I am honored to know him personally.
Alter graduated from UCLA School of Medicine in 1973 before additional training at Baylor and The Mayo Clinic. He was one of the first physicians with Board Certification by both the American Board of Plastic Surgery and the American Board of Urology.
He has an office-based practice. Alter is known for genital plastic surgery, especially genital reconstruction. He has invented many original surgical procedures adopted by other plastic surgeons in the field, including the “Alter Central-Wedge labiaplasty technique”.
Alter is a frequent subject of media coverage. In addition to appearing in almost every major print media outlet, he was featured on E! Entertainment’s programs Dr. 90210 and Botched. He has been highlighted on Alexis Arquette: She’s My Brother (documentary) and on the TLC show Strange Sex. He has appeared on the Discovery Health Network, TLC, CNN, the Larry King Show, and was a recurrent guest on “Red Eye” on the Fox News Channel.
Gary J. Alter, M.D. (altermd.com)
Archival community information
Indigo Pages on Gary Alter http://myria.home.mindspring.com/Indigo/Surgeons/Alter/AlterF2M.html
My SRS Experience with Dr. Gary Alter by “Rachel,” ed. by Anne Lawrence (2000) http://www.annelawrence.com/altersrsnarrative.html
My L.A. Experience with Dr. Alter by Lisa Kassner (1997) http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Heights/5445/alterexp1.html
J. William Futrell is an American plastic surgeon. His Transgender Surgical and Medical Center (TSMC) was in operation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania beginning in 1998 through 1999. This innovative clinic was developed by pioneering transgender medical professional Sheila Kirk.
J. William Futrell, MD, F.A.C.S.-Chief and Professor of the University Pittsburgh Medical Center, Plastic Reconstructive Surgery Department. One of the nationâs most respected plastic surgeons. Dr. Futrell has vast experience in MTF/FTM GRS, feminization and masculinzation of the face and related MTF/FTM surgeries.
Ernest K. Manders is an American plastic surgeon. His Transgender Surgical and Medical Center (TSMC) was in operation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania beginning in 1998 through 1999. This innovative clinic was developed by pioneering transgender medical professional Sheila Kirk.
Ernest K. Manders, MD, F.A.C.S.- Board certified in micro and plastic reconstructive surgery. Dr. Manders is Professor of Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical School. Specialists in Rib Removal and Male Pattern Baldness Surgery.
Stanley Harold Biber (May 4, 1923 â January 16, 2006) was an American surgeon who served the transgender community, becoming the country’s most prolific surgeon of the 20th century. His practice was taken over by Marci Bowers.
The archival information below is for historical purposes.
Vaginoplasty with Stanley Biber (retired)
Contact information: [August 2003]
General pages:
LINK: Indigo Pages on Stanley Biber http://myria.home.mindspring.com/Indigo/Surgeons/Biber/BiberM2F.html
LINK: Georgie Girl: Trinidad, Colorado via PBS (2003) http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2003/georgiegirl/resources_04_biber.html
LINK: Dr. Compassion by Lisa Neff, The Advocate, May 25, 1999 http://www.advocate.com/html/stories/0599B/0599_trandoc.asp
LINK: Old mining town now ‘sex-change’ capital by Pauline Arrilaga The Associated Press May 22, 1999 http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/9630/n000524a.htm
LINK: Sex-Change Industry a Boon to Small City by James Brooke, New York Times, November 8, 1998 http://www.moss-fritch.com/biber.htm http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10613F8395A0C7B8CDDA80994D0494D81
LINK: Sex Machine by Harrison Fletcher, Denver Westword August 27, 1998 http://www.westword.com/issues/1998-08-27/feature2.html http://www.westword.com/
LINK: Crossing: A Memoir by Dierdre McCloskey (surgery in 1996) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226556697/qid=1060395056/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/002-7394507-8196857
LINK: Review of Biber on Geraldo by Howard Rosenberg, Los Angeles Times Dec. 1, 1993 http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22stanley%2Bbiber%22&start=40&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&scoring=d&selm=2dk8dm%246k3%40aludra.usc.edu&rnum=48
Usenet refers to articles by Michael Haederle Los Angeles Times January 23, 1995 and Sue Anne Pressley, Washington Post, May 13, 1998.
IFGE also lists a video called An Evening with Dr. Stanley Biber about his MTF Technique. Also through CDS http://www.ifge.org/books/bookstore_catalog.htm#video
Related pages:
LINK: Vaginoplasty results: Stanley Biber by Anne Lawrence http://www.annelawrence.com/biber.html
LINK: Doctor Biber’s Letter by Melanie Anne Phillips (1991) http://heartcorps.com/subversive/sub007/biber.htm
LINK: Post-op Care by Stanley Biber (1991) via Melanie Anne Phillips http://heartcorps.com/subversive/sub012/biber.htm
Consumer experiences (most recent first)
LINK: Passage through Trinidad: journal of a surgical sex change, Claudine Griggs (1996) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786400889/002-7394507-8196857?vi=glance
LINK: My Sex Reassignment Surgery: A Biber Girl, Class of ’93, Tells All by Jessy X (1993) via Susans.org http://www.susans.org/reference/mysrs.html
LINK: Chapter 24: Closure by Melanie Anne Phillips (1992) [for extended account, start at Chapter 20 in Diaries]
LINK: The Trinidad Experience by Jennifer York (undated), via Ingersoll Gender Center http://www.genderweb.org/%7Ejanet/trinidad.html%0D
Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
A Gender Variance Who’s Who (zagria.blogspot.com)
Donald Rudolph Laub, Sr. (born January 1, 1935) is an American plastic surgeon who was based in California at Stanford University. He is an important figure in improving the health outcomes of trans and gender diverse people.
Laub earned his bachelor’s degree at Marquette University and his medical degree from the Marquette University School of Medicine in 1960. After an internship at Yale School of Medicine, he was appointed to a position at Stanford University.
He then served as chief of Plastic Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine from 1968 to 1980, before entering private practice.
During that time he co-founded the Stanford Gender Clinic.
Note: His son Donald R. Laub, Jr. is also a plastic surgeon based in Vermont. He was previously a surgeon at UVM Medical Center and their Cleft Palate Center. He serves as the medical director of the Vermont Cleft Palate â Craniofacial Center for the Vermont Department of Health. He also practices with Four Seasons Dermatology.
Former address
According to transhistory.org:
Related pages:
Consumer experiences (most recent first)
I needed corrective work of a very specialized nature. After being examined by several plastic surgeons, I was told that nothing could be done. The last doctor I saw recommended Dr. Donald R. Laub. Dr. Laub utilized such great ingenuity and creativity that the problem was successfully resolved.
— Joyce C Laguna Woods, CA (undated)
Interplast (interplast.org)
Donald Rudolph Laub, Jr. is an American plastic surgeon who has served the transgender community.
Laub got his medical degree at Medical College of Wisconsin, then did residencies at Oregon Health & Science University and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
Laub ran Green Mountain Gender Clinic in Williston, Vermont from 1999 until around 2007. William B. “Bill” Nash was the psychologist.
Note: His father Donald R. Laub, Sr. is also a plastic surgeon who was at Stanford University.
Archival links and contacts:
http://hometown.aol.com/grnmtclin
http://hometown.aol.com/grnmtclin/surgery.html
Dr. Laub Jr.
3 Timberland
South Burlington, VT 05403
(802) 860-3340
or
Green Mountain Gender Clinic
183 Talcott Rd. Suite 206
Williston, VT 05495
(802) 879-5333
Fax : (802)879-5333
http://hometown.aol.com/grnmtclin/index.html
[email protected]
https://www.wbnphd.com/
Metoidioplasty and FTM Top surgery using double incision
Northwestern Medical Center (northwesternmedicalcenter.org)
Four Seasons Dermatology (skinvt.com)
UVM Medical Center (uvmhealth.org)
Roberto C. Granato, Sr. (April 10, 1926 – October 26, 2014) was an Argentine-American urologist and surgeon.
Granato performed 300 bottom surgeries for trans people, including ophthalmologist and athlete Renee Richards.
Historic contact information:
Zagria (2009). Roberto C. Granato, Sr. (1926 – 2014). A Gender Variance Who’s Who https://zagria.blogspot.com/2009/09/roberto-c-granato-sr-193-urologist.html
Granato RC (1974). Surgical approach to male transsexualism. Urology. 1974 Jun;3(6):792-6. PMID: 4836347 https://doi.org/10.1016/s0090-4295(74)80231-1
granato-urology.com (2001-2006) [archive]
Ellie Zara Ley (born ~1973) is a Mexican-American surgeon. She performs gender surgeries with the Gender Confirmation Center in California.
Ley was born in San Luis, Sonora. She received treatment as a child in the US for a medical condition. She earned bachelor’s degrees in Spanish literature and biochemistry from University of Arizona in 1995. She earned her medical degree from the medical school of Universidad AutĂłnoma de Guadalajara in 2000, then returned to the United States to work at New York Medical College and at University of Arizona. Following her fellowship in pediatric craniofacial plastic surgery at Primary Childrenâs Medical Center in Utah, she trained at UCLA in hand and microsurgery. She then returned to the University of Utah for a fellowship in plastic and reconstructive surgery.
She founded the LEY Institute of Plastic & Hand Surgery before joining Toby R. Meltzer at The Meltzer Clinic in Arizona. In 2022 she joined the Gender Confirmation Center with Scott Mosser. She is licensed to practice in Arizona, California, Oregon, and Utah.
Exclusively Inclusive (exclusivelyinclusivepodcast.com)
The Gender Confirmation Center (genderconfirmation.com)
Felix Spector (September 18, 1917âDecember 5, 2007) was an American physician who specialized in orchiectomy. Spector was one of the first American surgeons to use the informed consent model of care for transgender and gender diverse people, the eunuch community in particular.
Spector graduated from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1942. Spector moved to California and later returned to Philadelphia in 1957, where he began performing orchiectomies during the late 1950s and early 1960s. He was arrested in the 1960s for performing abortions and was charged with falsifying pharmacy records, billing irregularities, and performing a castration of âgrossly inferior quality.â
Spector was diagnosed with Alzheimerâs disease late in life and in 2002 was forced to give up his practice in Philadelphia when the medical board declared him an âimmediate danger to the public health and safety.â Via the Pennsylvania Department of State Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs:
Sherry Joanne (geocities.com/sherrylanina) [archive]
Anne Lawrence (annelawrence.com)
Anonymous (May 2003):
Lenzer J (2008). Felix Spector: Surgeon of eunuchs. BMJ. 2008 Mar 29; 336(7646): 726. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.39520.528264.BE
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/25935203_Felix_Spector
Felix Spector (felixspector.com) [archive]