The Joy Tuck Club

Send us a text Hair transplants aren't just about hair; they're about defeating dysphoria and channeling confidence. Whether you're looking to fill-in your hairline or fill-out your beard, Dr. Dilan Fernando at the multi-award-winning Treatment Rooms London is a true artist. His clinic is known for the incredibly natural results it can give almost everyone looking for gender affirming care, but he also has a special reputation for his work with transgender patients, both MtF and FtM. In...

Send us a text Pull up a comfortable chair and join us as we share the second part of our interview with Dr. Marci Bowers. Dr. Bowers is renowned for her exceptional surgical work, work that has brought about remarkable advancements for all women, cisgender and transgender alike. Her dedication to both groups is testament enough, but after thousands of vaginoplasties and hundreds of metoidioplasties and clitoral restorations, she is also a first in more ways than deniers of gender affirming c...

Send us a text In this very special episode of The Joy Tuck Club, we sit down with Dr. Marci Bowers—trailblazing surgeon, passionate advocate, media-figure, WPATH President, and genuine trans icon. Marci shares her deeply personal journey from childhood in small-town America to becoming the first transgender woman to perform gender-affirming surgery. We talk candidly about her early attempts to access hormones, the challenges of transitioning while building a medical career, and what it meant...

Send us a text In an exemplary move toward clarity, the High Court in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has ruled that transgender women are women. This important legal shift helps relieve discrimination against those whose human rights were traditionally filtered through the lens of a being a third, lesser, gender, giving them the same rights as other women. In a notable decision, the judge rejected the notion that womanhood could only be tied to those who may have had a capacity to give bi...

Send us a text Come join us in this episode with Dr. Loren Schechter, one of the United States’ foremost experts in gender-affirming surgery and the President-Elect of WPATH (World Professional Association for Transgender Health). With over 20 years of experience performing some 150–200 surgeries annually, Dr. Schechter is not short on insights into the evolving field of transgender healthcare. He also performs numerous types of surgeries, including bottom surgery for MTF and FTM patients, al...