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Dr. Scot Glasberg Explains the ASPS Policy Shift on Transgender Surgeries

The Scott Jennings Show

"We are driven by science and data. This shift is about establishing a positive risk-benefit ratio and ensuring that we are doing what is best for the long-term well-being of these patients."

- February 27, 2026

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Understanding the ASPS Position Statement with Dr. Scot Glasberg

February 2026

Plastic Surgeons Ditch Gender Ideology: New Guidelines Rule Out Medical Transition for Kids

"Dr. Scot Glasberg is a plastic surgeon in private practice in New York and a past ASPS president... He said the organization selected age 19 as a cutoff because by that point young people are safely out of puberty."

- February 4, 2026

It’s Official: No Consensus Among Medical Groups on “Gender-Affirming Care” for Minors

"The American Society of Plastic Surgeons issues a bold new statement against irreversible interventions for minors, citing limitations in study quality and emerging evidence of treatment complications and potential harms."

- February 3, 2026

Plastic surgeons group recommends against gender surgery for minors

“This is a vulnerable, adolescent population... We are mindful that some of these surgeries are irreversible.”

- February 3, 2026

Plastic Surgeons’ Group Advises Delaying Gender-Affirming Procedures Until Age 19

"Dr. Scot Glasberg, a plastic surgeon who is a past president of the association and was involved in the deliberations over its new stance, said the shift had been prompted by a systematic review of existing research on the long-term outcomes for young people who had undergone gender treatments. The research, he said, was limited and of low quality."

- February 3, 2026

Plastic surgeons society recommends delaying gender-affirming procedures until age 19

"Scot Bradley Glasberg, a past president of the group, told STAT that ASPS began evaluating the quality of evidence... noting that new reviews of evidence strengthened its conclusion that the data supporting care is “low quality, low certainty.”"

- February 3, 2026

2024 Archive

Can a boob job kill you? The untold trauma of thousands of women suffering from 'Breast Implant Illness'

"Dr Glasberg says there is a 'host of reasons' behind the rise. '[Yet] the biggest is that women are worried about breast implant-related tumors and concerned over breast implant illness.'"

- September 9, 2024

Gen Z's Most Popular Plastic Surgeries Revealed in New Report

"Gen Z shows more of a trend toward having plastic surgery than other generations because it is more accepting of aesthetic procedures," Dr. Scot Bradley Glasberg told Newsweek...

- June 25, 2024

Consensus statement on breast implant capsulectomy definitions and management

"Ultimately, it should be the science and clinical data that dictates clinical care and guidelines..." says PSF President Scot Bradley Glasberg, MD.

- June 13, 2024

Gender medicine in the US: how the Cass review failed to land

"Scot Glasberg told The BMJ that the organisation will issue “trustworthy, high quality” guidelines... “we’ve found that the literature is of low quality and low value to dictate surgical care.”"

- May 23, 2024

Home procedures: danger of at-home plastic surgery

“I think that alarm bells should go off when you hear that someone is asking you to come to their home and have a procedure done,” Glasberg said. “That is so far from the norm that it should really raise a red flag.”

- May 13, 2024

Fake Botox Is Sickening Patients Across the U.S.

"The issue is twofold— low cost products produced in the counterfeit market lack regulation and oversight, and often end up in the hands of individuals who are not properly trained..."

- April 22, 2024