Vanderbilt University Medical Center will open a new clinic dedicated to transgender patients on Friday, expanding a limited-yet-growing number of options for transgender-tailored health care in Tennessee.

The clinic, which is intended as a comprehensive health care provider, will offer primary care, medical specialists, mental health services, hormone therapy and guidance both before and after transition surgery, according to an announcement from the hospital.

The new clinic will open in the existing Vanderbilt Health Walk-in Clinic Bellevue, located at 7069-B Highway 70 South.

“This new clinic allows us to meet our patients where they are in their journey and help them with the resources they need,” said Dr. Shayne Sebold Taylor, medical director of the clinic. “I can help them access Vanderbilt’s specialists allowing us to coordinate their care wherever they are in the transition process.”

Primary care will be offered all week during regular clinic hours. Vanderbilt physicians and nurse practitioners will see patients by appointment on Fridays from 1 pm. to 5 p.m. The new clinic will be dedicated to surgery patients one Friday per month.

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Brett Kelman is the health care reporter for The Tennessean. He can be reached at 615-259-8287 or at brett.kelman@tennessean.com. Follow him on Twitter at @brettkelman.