Meet the Surgeon Sought After by Transgender Men

Surgeon Curtis Crane says he will keep training colleagues until transgender patients don't have to wait so long.

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Curtis Crane spent 20 years training in the U.S and abroad, acquiring penis-making skills that have won him a global following.

Crane says he’s one of only a few surgeons in the U.S. performing a high volume of phalloplasties -- a booming surgical niche fueled by an increasing number of transgender men seeking to complete their anatomical transition. Even after hiring and training two colleagues to perform the eight-hour surgery, Crane’s patients must wait a year to have it done.