Gender Affirming Surgeries: Planning, Referral, and Care
Learn to conduct surgery planning visits with patients and make referrals for gender-affirming surgeries in Ontario. Participants will learn to explain transition-related surgeries, navigate Ontario’s trans surgical care system, apply WPATH SOC criteria, conduct planning visits, complete the MOHLTC SRS Prior Approval Form, and write referral letters.
Prerequisite: 2SLGBTQ+ Foundations and (strongly recommended) Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy in Primary Health Care or Trans 101 – Adults and Older Adults.
Open to: Physicians, nurse practitioners, RNs, RSWs, registered psychologists, and students of these disciplines only. These are the five professions designated by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care to make referrals for gender-affirming surgeries.
Content Level: Intermediate
Mainpro+ Certification: 4.0 Mainpro-M1 credits (Ontario ONLY)
Duration: 4 hours
Instructed by a Rainbow Health Ontario Clinical Educator and Suza Hranilovic, MN, NP-PHC.
About Suza Hranilovic
Suza Hranilovic (she/her) is an experienced Nurse Practitioner and educator with over three decades of leadership in HIV care and gender-affirming primary health care. As a recently-retired clinical leader at St. Michael’s Hospital Academic Family Health Team and lead of their AFFIRM Resident Training program, she continues her work as a Clinical Consultant Trainer with Rainbow Health Ontario (since 2014).
