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Transgender Australians seeking lower body procedures can go to just a handful of local surgeons. It means long waits, huge costs and difficult decisions

Advertisement When Kyla Joy was imagining her life-changing surgery in Australia, getting stuck in the wrong city was not part of the plan. Yet, arriving in Victoria just before the world shut down in March 2020, lockdown meant the Filipino teenager was unable to travel to Sydney for her operations later that year. Nurse Megan Brady with Kyla Joy at Concord Hospital, as the teenager said her goodbyes to staff. Credit:Louise Kennerley “I didn’t expect that,” Kyla, 16, said. “...