A Toronto hospital has become the first in Ontario to offer trans surgery.
Doctor Yonah Krakowsky, a urologist and medical lead of the Transition-Related Surgery Program at Women's College Hospital in Toronto, says it can be life saving.
Previously trans people had to go to Montreal or abroad for surgery.
More than a year of training got doctors from several departments, nurses and social workers ready for the program's first three vaginoplasty surgeries this week.
The procedure involves urology, gynecology, general surgery and plastic surgery.