Dr. Lee C. Zhao and Dr. Rachel Bluebond-Langner performed gender-affirming surgery for Jane in 2020.
Photo: Sasha Nialla
Twenty-year-old Jane Noury’s journey and challenges growing up as a young trans woman are chronicled in Always Jane, a four-part documentary series streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
Jane had gender-affirming surgery with Rachel Bluebond-Langner, MD, the Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Associate Professor of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery in the , and Lee C. Zhao, MD, associate professor in the and Hansjörg Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery, in the midst of the pandemic in 2020. Dr. Bluebond-Langner and Dr. Zhao are also co-directors of ٺƵ’s Gender-Affirming Surgery Program.
“Jane showed such strength and resilience throughout the very vulnerable experience of undergoing a life-changing operation, and I’m glad our team at ٺƵ could support Jane growing ever stronger,” says Dr. Bluebond-Langner.
Jane’s surgery was a success, and she has never been happier. She is currently a film student at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
“For me, personally, I needed to have surgery to help me along the road. I needed that in my transition. But a lot of people don’t need that,” says Jane. Gender-affirming surgery, though crucial and intensive healthcare for many trans people, is “not the overall goal, and your life still continues after surgery,” adds Jane.
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