LGBTQ+ in Surgery: Coming out as a transgender surgeon

This is the third of a four-part series on the theme of LGBTQ+ people in surgery. In this episode, Ginny Bowbrick, consultant vascular surgeon, interviews Philippa Burns, also a consultant vascular surgeon, about her experiences coming out at work as a transgender surgeon. This discussion considers the nature of privilege and respectability in the surgical community, the attitudes of patients and colleagues to transgender people in the hospital environment, and what can be done to improve the desirability of surgery as a profession to as wide a range of people as possible.