Dr. Eric Walton

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BackTable Urology · Ep. 284 Integrating Gender Affirming Care Into Urology with Dr. Eric Walton · 13 Jan 2026 podcast

And so it's a lot better for a patient if we can have a phone call and tell you what you need to do to manage an acute problem.

as opposed to transferring that care to a much farther away center.

Yeah, I mean, it feels silly to have to say it, but you're right.

You know, I want to be respectful of other people's time and they want to be respectful of mine.

So there's, they might not want to reach out because they don't want to bother me, but please bother me.

Yeah, I think this goes back to something we talked about a little bit ago, which is making sure that you're acknowledging and affirming someone's gender.

So using their preferred name, using their preferred pronouns.

But also when it comes down to it, transgender and gender diverse persons are people just like the rest of us that have regular human problems.

And if they're there to talk about their kidney stone, they're there to talk about their enlarged prostate.

They're there to talk about their kidney tumor.

we don't need to ask them questions about their gender dysphoria.

We need to focus on the problem that we're there to help them with.

you know not talking about their gender dysphoria is is honestly it probably is a bigger deal in the head of the urologist who like just wants to get it right than it is in the head of the patient who just wants to talk about their kidney stones yeah exactly so just keep questions about it focused on clinically relevant things so you're going to do endoscopic surgery then you need to know what their anatomy is so you need to know if they've had any gender affirming surgery so you can properly access their bladder and their ureter but

You don't need to get their full history of how long have they been on hormones, how long have they socially transitioned because that's not relevant to that care that you're providing.

We need to be doing the same screening that we would be doing for any other patient.

I think one helpful way to think about it is to do an organ inventory and be aware of which organs a patient has.

So if a patient has a prostate, whether or not they've had a vaginoplasty or not, they still need to be doing prostate cancer screening.

you do need to be mindful that they've probably been on estrogen therapy for a period of time.

And so their PSA should be suppressed.

And so if their PSA is elevated, then they by definition have hormone resistant prostate cancer.

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