Johns Hopkins Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health

The Johns Hopkins Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health is a medical clinic as part of the Johns Hopkins Hospital providing gender-affirming care for transgender and gender-diverse people.

The clinic first opened in 1966 under the name Gender Identity Clinic, founded by John Hoopes, former chief of plastic surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and John Money. It remained open for 13 years until its sudden closure in 1979 due to pressure by Paul R. McHugh, who joined Johns Hopkins as chief of psychiatry in 1975 with the intent of ending the Gender Identity Clinic, and pushed for a study that claimed that there was no benefit for gender-affirming care.

In early fall of 2016, Paul McHugh co-authored a new paper against gender-affirming care in the social conservative journal The New Atlantis. Following release of the paper, 600 members of faculty, students and alumni signed a petition for the university and hospital to disavow McHugh's paper. Shortly after, in October 2016, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine issued a statement titled "Johns Hopkins Medicine's Commitment to the LGBT Community" with the intent to re-introduce gender-affirming care at Johns Hopkins.

The clinic re-opened in 2017 under the new name Johns Hopkins Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health which provides gender affirming care to this day.