Lack of gender affirmation healthcare results in raft of problems for trans people

Gender affirmation surgery not available in Nepal. Post-op problems are common but treatment hard to come by.

F0r 28-year-old Rubina Tamang, gender affirmation surgery is a faraway dream. Tamang, who is pursuing her Bachelor’s degree, can’t afford the surgery and hence, has put it on the backburner. She has, however, been taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for a while, but that too comes with its own challenges, and for a transgender individual, the problem doesn’t end there.