A $1 million commitment from the Saint Francis Foundation is helping to support the Gender Institute for San Francisco's trans and gender-nonconforming populations at the hospital it serves.
Mark Ryle, a gay man who is the president of the foundation, touted that — and a recent profile in Forbes magazine — in an interview with the Bay Area Reporter. "We've committed $1 million directly to the Gender Institute and ...
added another $300,000 in a grant to [the San Francisco Community Health Center] as our community partner in the program (they are developing a program for our patients post discharge)," Ryle recently stated to the B.A.R. "We also funded $1.7 million to acquire a da Vinci Xi robot to perform the very intricate vaginoplasty and