Transgender care

The University of Iowa Health Care LGBTQ Clinic offers comprehensive transgender care in a welcoming, inclusive environment. Our staff specializes in compassionate care and support of transgender and gender-nonconforming patients at every stage of the gender-confirmation journey.

Request an Appointment

For requests:

1-800-777-8442

For Family Medicine related requests:: 1-319-384-7222

For Obstetrics and Gynecology (OBGYN) related requests:: 1-319-356-2294

For Urology related requests:: 1-319-356-2421

Our pioneering clinic is a national leader in gender-affirming care and surgery and offers some procedures not available anywhere else in Iowa.

One place for all of your gender-affirming care

As you progress toward gender confirmation, you’ll need physicians, surgeons, pharmacists, mental health professionals, and other providers who specialize in working with transgender patients and who understand your goals and concerns.

Whether you’re just beginning to consider hormone therapy or you’re recovering from gender-affirming surgery, you’ll receive your care every step of the way from professionals who are trained to provide transgender medicine.

If you’re already on your path to gender confirmation, our team will work with you to review your medical history and create a treatment plan that will help you achieve your goals.

Your care team can include UI Health Care experts in these fields and others:

Family medicine
Internal medicine
Obstetrics and gynecology
Plastic and reconstructive surgery
Urology and reconstructive urologic surgery
Dermatology
Mental health
Pharmacy
Physical therapy
Social work
Speech therapy

When you need a provider outside of UI Health Care, we help you find a professional who will meet your needs.

Transgender medicine not available anywhere else in Iowa

When you choose the UI Health Care LGBTQ Clinic for your gender-affirming care, you’re choosing Iowa’s only comprehensive academic medical center, home to world-class experts in more than 200 medical specialties. Our doctors are also researchers who use, and often help create, the most advanced therapies and procedures available anywhere.

We’re the only center in Iowa that offers gender-confirming genital surgeries for trans feminine persons, including zero-depth vaginoplasty (also called vulvoplasty) and full-depth vaginoplasty.

And our extensive staff of expert physicians in every field allows us to offer the most comprehensive transgender medical care in the state.

University of Iowa Human Rights Policy

States that in no aspect of its programs shall there be differences in the treatment of persons because of race, creed, color, national origin, age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other classification that deprives the person of consideration as an individual.

Where you belong

Your UI Health Care transgender medicine provider will know and use your name and pronouns. That’s because every member of our team has had LGBTQ-specific cultural humility training.

We strive to make our clinic a welcoming place where you’ll feel comfortable, valued, respected, and heard.