Only Okayama University has the Gender Center that treats, makes research and provides education of gender associated diseases(GAD) including gender identity disorder(GID) . This time, national insurance coverage for sex reassignment surgery is approved. So, this center has to play an important role as the training Institute to grow up the GID medical specialists.

Practice

We develop world’s first flap combination phallolasty that is better not only for cosmetic outcome but, also forfunctionthan past procedures and introduced recto-sigmoid colon vaginoplasty with laparoscope.

Research

We have researched sex organ transfer homosexually and heterosexually for the first time’s uterine transplantation and cooperate with other universities as a director of Japan Society for uterine transplantation.

Education

We focus on successor training program and recommend training abroad and presentation at the international conference. We have global partners such as Gent Uni. in Belgium, Vrije Uni. Amsterdam in Netherland, Dong-A Uni. In Korea and Chulalongkorn Uni. Currently, we are conducting a questionnaire survey to visualize how difficult the lives of GID patients are and to verify the psychological effects of gender reassignment surgery on GID patients.

URL

http://www.okayama-u.ac.jp/user/genderc1/