hello, i'm dr. curtis crane. and i'm dr. thomas satterwhite. together, we have a practice here in the sanfrancisco bay area dedicated to serving the transgender community. and we wanted to take a few moments to talkabout our background, our practice, and why we're so excited to be taking care of thetrans community. hope you enjoy it. dr. crane, as many of you know, took overthe practice of dr. michael brownstein, who was a huge advocate for trans men, and he'scertainly expanded it to include all surgical
options for both trans men and trans women. for trans men, i offer chest masculinizingsurgery, liposuction, metoidioplasty, and free flap phalloplasty. and then for trans women, all surgical procedures:facial feminization surgery, breast augmentation, vaginoplasty, and then for all individuals,any aspects of cosmetic and aesthetic surgery. my first exposure to the community was actuallyoverseas. one of my trips was to belgrade, serbia, working with dr. djorjevic. that'swhere i had my first exposure to surgery for the trans community. when i was a resident, i met dr. don laub.speaking with him made me realize the great
work that he was doing. and that, for me,had been a spark. the more i discussed how fascinating the surgerywas, the more i actually saw how much of a bias there was against this community. i've always wanted to work with an underservedcommunity, and i think i found the community that's the most underserved. i think for far too long, the trans communityhas been taken advantage of. there are way too many surgeons, doctors who were performingprocedures and operations and weren't qualified to do that. i felt that it was important todo that fellowship in craniofacial surgery and be as well trained as possible beforetaking care of the trans community.
i truly developed my own residency and fellowshipsin reconstructive urology, urology, plastic surgery, and specifically transgender surgeryso i could offer the best that i possibly could to my patients. for me, the next step in trans care was notonly piecing together my own training program, but pushing the envelope -- getting third-partypayers to start taking responsibility. far too long, you had patients that were payinginto insurance premiums that weren't taking care of the surgeries that they needed. thatmovement wasn't going to push forward until there were surgeons and doctors saying, "no,i will work with any insurance company. now the onus is on you.
with our practice, everyone here is dedicatedto making sure that patients are getting the appropriate coverage. no one should have toface the burden of spending 30, 40, 50, 100 thousand dollars on an operation that's medicallynecessary. at this point, i believe my practice is treatingabout 90 percent insurance patients. one patient that we took care of is an identicaltwin, both assigned girls, but he's a transgender boy getting top surgery, about 14 years old.operation went wonderfully well. they came back and i took off the binder and the dressings,and then mom started crying, and then dad started crying, and sister started crying,and the patient started crying, and then i started crying, and then we were all justhugging and crying. it just really reminded
me of why i'm doing the work that i'm doing. i really enjoy the "first orgasm" texts. "dr.crane, i know you said not to try for eight weeks, but i thought five weeks was prettyclose to eight weeks and i just want to let you know i just had my first orgasm and everythingis awesome. it's incredible, thank you so much." sometimes i get those texts at two in themorning. you can wait until eight in the morning. but anytime i get those texts, of course i'mhappy for the patients who are enjoying their new genital reconstruction. taking it fora test drive. if you'd like to contact us or find out moreabout our practice, please visit our website.
and thanks for watching. we're incrediblyhonored to be of service to the trans community. let us know if we can help. do you have a feather boa or something? no, just on tuesdays. okay, first of all, it is tuesday, secondof all... oh it is... he's got a point. i accept you, thomas. i accept you for whoyou are. gay gay gay gay gay...
why don't i just say, "this is my gay colleague..." "hi i'm gay." i'm just kidding. i know who you should see. it's not us. then all of a sudden i hear jen exclaim, "oh,you're a natal male!" that might not be a very funny story. haha. ha. ...huggin and crying and then we were allhugging and crying. because they were happy? you cry every day. yeah, because you farted.no, he doesn't cry.
we're incredibly honored to take of and ofservice to...[quack] i wasn't supposed to say "my name", i'm justsupposed to say "i am". cuz my name isn't "doctor". that's crazy. i am...doctor... it's funny how hard talking can be. yeah, how do we look right now? a little closer. little closer. closer. should we spoon each other? just for a second. full on, or should it be to the side...from the back.
hurt my hand! there's so much touching in this relationship. yeah, there's a lot. i can't help it. i wishthere were more. wow. i'm just kidding. do you want that to go in the blooper reel? no. no, leave that out.
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