History of transgender care at Johns Hopkins Hospital

The history of transgender care at Johns Hopkins Hospital began in 1966 with its Gender Identity Clinic, founded by John Hoopes, former chief of plastic surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and John Money. It remained open for 13 years until its closure in 1979, with the hospital board citing evidence-based studies that sex-reassignment surgery does not have lasting long-term positive effects on those who received care. The department would re-open in 2017 as the Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health which provides gender affirming care to this day.