Thank you, Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for being here.
First I want to start by apologizing for our being late. I wanted to make you aware that one of our colleagues, Mark Warawa, who's the member for Langley—Aldergrove, has found out that he has cancer, and it's colon cancer that has spread to his lungs and his lymph nodes, so he was making his final speech in the House today, which was a very sad occasion, and that's why we're late.
I want to focus my questions, if I can, on some things that are specific to being transgender. We've been hearing a lot about LGBTQ health issues, but I want to see if there are ones that are particular and maybe different than the rest.
When it comes to having surgery conversion, are there any specific issues with respect to failed surgeries or complications that would be health issues that transgender people would experience that the rest would not?
That's for anybody.