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Intermountain Health will not provide ‘bottom surgery’ for trans patients, despite hiring surgical director with that expertise

KUER reported that while Intermountain has never offered such surgeries, the hospital system apparently planned to and accepted patients for such care before reversing the decision.

(Trent Nelson  |  The Salt Lake Tribune) Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, on Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021. Intermountain has told a transgender patient seeking a vaginoplasty that the hospital chain would not perform so-called "bottom surgeries," according to a report by KUER.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, on Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021. Intermountain has told a transgender patient seeking a vaginoplasty that the hospital chain would not perform so-called "bottom surgeries," according to a report by KUER.