Posted
November 20, 2023
Tags: Thailand
Gender-affirming care is vital to the transgender community. And research that furthers this care plays a critical role in optimizing health outcomes.
That’s why Amaraporn Rerkasem, MD, set out to study the neovaginal health of transgender women in Thailand.
Rerkasem, of Chiang Mai University’s Research Institute for Health Sciences, is focusing on the microbiome of neovaginas in transgender women. The hope is that by examining the microbial communities, or bacteria, living in neovaginas she’ll be able to better assess how to maintain vaginal health and prevent infections.
