Dr. Toby Meltzer has recently partnered with Legacy Health Hospital of Portland, Oregon to offer MTF sex-reassignment surgeries for transgender women beginning the summer of 2019. His website states that he’ll continue offering sex changes at Honorhealth of Scottsdale in addition to the new Portland location. Toby no longer is partnered with Kaiser Permanente of San Francisco / Oakland. They fired him in January of 2018 for disfiguring and abusing patients.

Since the launch of www.tobymeltzer.com and the publication of Toby’s awful surgical photos (which he tells patients are great) and negative reviews, his practice has lost significant amounts of patients and revenue. The addition to Portland’s Legacy Health may be an attempt to make up for that loss. The move may also be because Toby may be getting fired from Honorhealth Hospital of Scottsdale. He has been under investigation for abuse in a formal grievance procedure for many months. As part of the investigation doctors and surgeons have been investigating claims that he is disfiguring patients. Dr. Meltzer is also currently under investigation by the Arizona Medical Board for abusing and disfiguring patients.

Toby Meltzer is a Threat to Portland Transgender Women

Prospective Portland area transgender patients should be aware that Dr. Meltzer uses an outdated two-step sex-reassignment surgical technique that commonly leaves patients with terrible looking and functioning surgical results. Toby regularly tells patients to “not open” their legs as a result of his poor MTF surgical outcomes. As a result of Toby’s surgeries patients are often left with very little to no tissue covering the clitoris, urethra and vaginal opening. Toby and his staff hide this fact from prospective patients, often leaving them completely shocked and horrified when they see their final result. Toby is also known to forcefully gaslight patients by telling them their results are wonderful or that “a lot of women’s vagina’s look like that.”

Toby is a dangerous surgeon who has left hundreds if not thousands of women in states of misery and confusion. He uses his extraordinary charm to convince unsuspecting patients to have surgery with him. He’s also used his charisma to convince hospitals like Kaiser to partner with him, but once they realized what was actually occurring in his practice they terminated their contract with him immediately.

Toby will also cut off trans patients who raise concerns about their MTF surgical results. Patients fear this, because they know if they lose their surgeon and support staff after having a sex change they will have no one to speak with when issues come up.

Patients Can Sue Portland’s Legacy Health

In March of 2019 Legacy Health of Portland was made aware of the abuse occurring in Toby’s practice. Five officials from the hospital were notified that Portland area patients were at severe risk of being disfigured and harmed from his surgeries. They were shown numerous critical reviews by transgender patients who had sex-reassignment surgery with Toby. They were also sent photos of Toby’s surgical results which clearly demonstrate that Toby is disfiguring patients. The five Legacy Health officials who were warned of the abuse are: Aisha Furbach (Vice President, Quality & Patient Safety), Neil Mcaullife (Patient Relations for Good Samaratin), Neola Young (Legacy Transgender Services), Piseth Pich (Public Relations) and Brian Terrett (Director, Public Relations).

Legacy Health officials have not taken the abuse seriously, instead they’ve dismissed the accounts by saying Toby is an “independent contractor” in an effort to resolve any responsibility. Yet, Toby will be operating at Legacy Health hospital, using Legacy Health equipment, staff and resources and most importantly Legacy Health will be making a lot of money from this partnership. Toby is seriously disfiguring patients, leaving them in states of misery. This is worse than sexual molestation. It is permanent, irreversible damage to one’s sex life. Imagine if Legacy Health had been notified of a surgeon molesting patients and they said “he is just an independent contractor.”

Any Portland patient of Toby’s who has sex-reassignment surgery at Legacy Health may sue him and the hospital. Lawyers need to know that Legacy health was fully aware of the abuse occurring before he started and is allowing it to happen. Thus, Legacy Health are fully responsible legally, morally and ethically for what is happening at their hospital.

Legacy Health to Make Millions from Dr. Toby Meltzer

Hospitals like Legacy Health of Portland can make millions of dollars off of a sex-reassignment surgeon like Dr. Toby Meltzer. Thus, there is a huge conflict of interest when abuse claims arise. The average hospital bill of a sex change is around $70,000. Over the course of time Legacy Health stands to make millions of dollars off of Toby’s surgeries. Their unwillingness to respond to the abuse claims is a testament to this conflict of interest. Toby will bring in the most revenue of any potential area in the hospital.