The Suporn Clinic

The Suporn Clinic is a clinic for male-to-female gender-affirming genital surgery in Chonburi, Thailand. Its published address is 938 Sukhumvit Road in Bang Pla Soi, part of the Mueang Chon Buri district of the provincial town, and the clinic puts its location at roughly 80 km south-east of Bangkok. You may also see it written as Suporn Clinic or Dr Suporn Clinic.

The name comes from Dr. Suporn Watanyusakul, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon who devised the sex reassignment surgery (SRS) method the clinic presents as “The Suporn Technique”. The clinic stresses that this is not penile inversion. That matters when you compare providers, because penile inversion vaginoplasty is the technique our vaginoplasty guide describes as the most established.

Compared with a general hospital, the clinic's documented scope is narrow. Its official pages cover three operations: full-depth vaginoplasty (its standard SRS); shallow-depth or zero-depth vaginoplasty, which it shortens to SDV; and “cosmetic improvement” surgery for people who had their primary SRS there. Two surgeons are on the 2026–2027 surgery calendar: Dr. Bank, whom the clinic's Doctors page identifies as Dr. Chayamote Chayangsu, and Dr. Prae. Patients can ask for either one.

On site there is a main reception, consulting rooms, a patient lounge, and an operating theatre with recovery rooms. Operations that need a general anaesthetic are not done in the clinic building, though. According to the clinic's Hospital page they take place at Samitivej Chonburi Hospital, around 5 km away, on an upper floor set aside for the clinic's patients. Outside the hospital stay, patients are normally put up at the Rattanachol Hotel, a few minutes on foot from the clinic.

We compiled this profile from the clinic's own website, searches of two accreditation databases and our researched records for each surgeon. Where the clinic's pages disagree with each other or look out of date, we say so. To ask about surgery here, request a consultation through our patient team; a date is only reserved once the clinic itself confirms it.

Every operation on the clinic's current calendar is male-to-female genital surgery. Reading its most recently edited pages together (the calendar, updated on 22 September 2026; Patient Administration, March 2026; Our Commitment, September 2025), the services are:

• Full-depth vaginoplasty (primary SRS). The clinic's main operation, done with the Suporn Technique. Its protocols give 7 nights in hospital and ask patients to remain in Thailand for 24 days at minimum, ideally 30.
• SDV: shallow-depth or zero-depth vaginoplasty. SDV has its own dates on the calendar, and each one is currently labelled with Dr. Bank's name. Zero-depth vaginoplasty corresponds to what our guides call vulvoplasty.
• Cosmetic improvement (CI) surgery. Secondary refinements for the clinic's own SRS patients after their primary operation, covered by a warranty for a limited period and subject to conditions the clinic sets. Dr. Bank and Dr. Prae handle these.
• Aftercare and paperwork. Email advice after surgery for up to a year following the primary operation, a medical certificate describing the operation, and, for a fee, notarisation of the SRS certificate.

A few older passages on the site still mention facial feminisation surgery and breast augmentation. They read as if written when Dr. Suporn was operating full time, and since the current calendar has only SRS and SDV dates, we have not listed either operation as available. Orchiectomy comes up only as an operation a patient might have had before, not as something the clinic offers on its own. If you hoped to combine genital surgery with facial or breast work, say so when you get in touch; our patient team will check with the clinic instead of guessing.

The clinic does not publish a price list. Each patient gets a personal quotation, and a date is secured by paying at least 20% of the quoted amount within 14 days of asking for it. With any vaginoplasty quotation, go through what is covered line by line: hospital nights, hotel, transport, dilators, medication and follow-up visits are the items most worth checking.

Three surgeons appear on the clinic's pages, but only two are on today's operating calendar. The Doctors page was last edited in August 2023 and has not been updated to include Dr. Prae, so for the current line-up we go by the newer calendar and Our Commitment pages. Each surgeon has a sourced profile of their own on our site.

Dr. Chayamote Chayangsu (“Dr. Bank”), plastic surgeon. The clinic's Doctors page gives his medical degree as an M.D. from Mahidol University (Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital) in 2006, followed by general surgery residency at Chonburi Hospital from 2007 to 2011 and plastic surgery residency at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital from 2011 to 2014, with Thai Board diplomas in general surgery (2011) and plastic surgery (2014). His Samitivej Chonburi Hospital profile shows the same two diplomas, and that hospital lists him among the doctors of its Plastic Surgery Center. The clinic's account of his SRS training is that he shared operations with Dr. Suporn from August 2017 and has been operating independently of him since October 2018; Dr. Suporn describes the technique Dr. Bank uses as identical to his own. Our checks found him listed by ThPRS (the Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons of Thailand) and named as an honorary member by THAI-PATH, the Thailand Professional Association of Transgender Health. The clinic adds two further memberships, the Royal College of Surgeons of Thailand and ThSAPS (the Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons of Thailand); those rest on the clinic's word rather than on a public list we could check. He is the surgeon for full-depth SRS dates and for all SDV dates on the current calendar. Dr. Chayamote's profile has the full record.

Two points from the 2023 Doctors page need care. It says his facial cosmetic and body contouring work is done at a separate clinic of his own nearby, so those operations are not part of The Suporn Clinic's services. It also gives him a post, from 2014, as lecturer and staff plastic and reconstructive surgeon at Chonburi Hospital's Department of Surgery. That department's current published staff list does not include him, so we treat the role as unconfirmed.

Dr. Prae, surgeon on the current SRS calendar. The calendar lets patients request an SRS date with Dr. Bank or with Dr. Prae, and the Our Commitment page names Dr. Prae as one of the two surgeons who carry out cosmetic improvement work. That is all the clinic's English website says. It gives no full name, qualifications, photograph or memberships, so our Dr. Prae profile is limited to what the clinic states. All SDV dates carry Dr. Bank's name, so we do not link Dr. Prae to zero-depth surgery. Before paying a deposit it is reasonable to want your surgeon's full name, training and licence details; if you are considering Dr. Prae, ask for them in your request and we will raise it with the clinic.

Dr. Suporn Watanyusakul, who developed the technique. According to his Samitivej Chonburi profile, he graduated in medicine at Chiang Mai University in 1985. The clinic's Doctors page adds general surgery training at Chonburi Hospital, then plastic and reconstructive surgery at Chulalongkorn University (1990–1992). ThPRS lists him as a member, THAI-PATH names him among its honorary members, and PubMed indexes two papers he co-authored under a Suporn Clinic affiliation, one of them “Vaginoplasty Modifications to Improve Vulvar Aesthetics” (Urologic Clinics of North America, 2019). The clinic dates his use of the technique to 2000. A May 2017 announcement said he would withdraw from full-time surgery, and the clinic's terms say that after 31 December 2019 he takes on primary operations on a limited basis only, with revision work possibly continuing on request. He is not on the 2026–2027 calendar. Samitivej Chonburi Hospital's doctor directory lists him under plastic surgery. More is on Dr. Suporn's profile.

When we prepared this profile, the online doctor check run by the Medical Council of Thailand would not return search results for these surgeons, and Dr. Prae cannot be looked up there without a published full name. You can run the check yourself; our guide to verifying a surgeon or hospital in Thailand walks through it.

This section covers the three operations the clinic documents. Statements about the clinic are attributed to its own pages; the general points follow our vaginoplasty guide and describe the operations in general, not results at this clinic.

Full-depth vaginoplasty (SRS) using the Suporn Technique. In general, vaginoplasty builds a vaginal canal along with the clitoris and labia, usually with removal of the testes in the same sitting, and it is a major operation performed under general anaesthesia. Our guide's general picture is roughly a week as an inpatient and three to four weeks in Thailand overall, and the clinic's own requirements sit inside that range: 7 hospital nights, and a stay in the country of no less than 24 days, with 30 preferred.

The difference lies in how the canal is made. The clinic calls its approach non-penile inversion, meaning the canal is not lined with inverted penile skin. Conference abstracts by Dr. Suporn that the clinic publishes describe a canal lined with full-thickness grafts of scrotal and groin skin, and a sensate clitoris and labia minora built from a flap he named the “Chonburi Flap”. Dr. Bank learned the method working alongside Dr. Suporn. Useful questions for the consultation: how would the technique be adapted to your anatomy, which donor sites would be used, and do you need hair removal on those areas first? Many surgeons recommend or insist on permanent hair removal of skin that will line the canal, and electrolysis or laser can take months, so ask early.

Dilation is part of life after full-depth vaginoplasty: in general several sessions a day at the start, tapering over the following months, and usually continuing long term to keep depth and width. The general risks our guide lists are bleeding, infection and wound-healing problems; urinary problems such as a spraying stream or narrowing; the canal losing depth or narrowing; changes in sensation; and, rarely but seriously, a rectovaginal fistula, an abnormal opening between the vagina and the bowel. Ask the clinic how these are watched for while you are in hospital, who you contact if something changes once you are back at the hotel, and how its email follow-up works after you fly home. In general, desk-based work is often possible after around six to eight weeks, whereas lifting heavy objects and sexual activity generally need a longer wait, as the surgeon advises.

SDV: shallow-depth or zero-depth vaginoplasty. A zero-depth operation, covered in our vulvoplasty guide, forms the vulva without building a canal. That removes the need for lifelong dilation, but also means there is no vaginal canal for penetrative sex. The clinic books SDV on separate dates, all assigned to Dr. Bank on the current calendar. The pages we read do not explain what “shallow depth” means in practice compared with zero depth, or whether SDV needs a shorter hospital stay or less time in Thailand than full-depth SRS, so both are worth asking.

Cosmetic improvement after SRS at the clinic (revision). In general, some people have a second, smaller operation after vaginoplasty, such as a refinement of the labia. The clinic offers this as “cosmetic improvement” for its own SRS patients, under a warranty with a time limit and conditions set out on its Our Commitment page, with Dr. Bank and Dr. Prae as the operating surgeons. Its terms distinguish between clinic-based work and work requiring a hospital admission, and charges apply after the warranty ends, so request the current terms in writing. Whether the clinic takes revision patients who had their first operation elsewhere is not stated; if that applies to you, mention it when you write. Other providers who document revision work are listed on our revision vaginoplasty page.

Eligibility and assessment. The clinic states that it applies WPATH guidelines to the extent it considers reasonable and meets Thai medical standards. Before SRS it asks for written diagnoses or referrals from psychosexual professionals. Its age rules are: no SRS below 18; for anyone under 20, written approval from a parent or legal guardian, a direct blood relative, or someone holding legal power of attorney; and SRS patients aged 55 or over are no longer accepted. For context, WPATH's Standards of Care, Version 8 (SOC-8), suggest a period of hormone therapy of at least six months before genital surgery, except where hormones are not clinically appropriate or not wanted. The clinic will set out its own expectations for your case.

We found no accreditation record for The Suporn Clinic. On 27 September 2026, a search for “Suporn” in Joint Commission International's organisation search returned nothing, while a test search for Samitivej returned results, confirming the tool worked. The status search of the Healthcare Accreditation Institute (HA Thailand) showed no clinic entry under either “Suporn” or the Thai “สุพร”. The clinic's website does not claim any accreditation of its own.

No record is not a verdict on care quality: it simply means there is no external accreditation to point to. What the clinic offers instead is its own description of its standards, namely WPATH guidance applied where it judges it reasonable, and compliance with Thai medical standards; that is self-description rather than an outside assessment.

Since the clinic's general-anaesthetic operations take place at Samitivej Chonburi Hospital, the hospital's standing is relevant too. At the time of our check, the HA Thailand database showed Samitivej Chonburi Hospital re-accredited for the period 21 November 2023 to 20 November 2026. That is the hospital's status, not the clinic's, and the end date is only weeks after this profile was checked, so ask whether it has been renewed before you travel. Accreditation, in general, looks at how a facility runs things such as infection prevention and patient safety at the point of survey; it cannot tell you how any single operation will turn out.

Whatever the accreditation position, these are sensible questions for the clinic:

• Which parts of my treatment happen in the clinic building, and which at Samitivej Chonburi Hospital?
• Who is my anaesthetist, and where is the anaesthetic given?
• If I need more care than planned, or more nights in hospital, how is that arranged and charged?
• Who do I contact about a problem after moving back to the hotel, and after I return home?

Arranged by the clinic. Most logistics for international patients are handled by the clinic itself. Its Our Commitment and Patient Administration pages describe:

• pick-up at Bangkok airport by clinic staff, whatever time you land, then the clinic's coach to Chonburi, and a transfer back to the airport when you leave;
• hotel booking in Chonburi, normally at the Rattanachol Hotel close to the clinic;
• every journey between hotel, clinic and hospital;
• English-speaking nurses on shifts while you are in hospital, plus daily visits from clinic staff;
• a daily visit at the hotel from a clinic nursing assistant after discharge;
• help with extending a visa and confirming your return flight and, if you must stay beyond 30 days, supporting documents for your visa application;
• a medical certificate recording your operation, plus paid notarisation of the SRS certificate if you need it;
• email advice after surgery for up to one year following the primary operation.

English is the only language the clinic's pages document. Enquiries should reach the clinic by email, written in English; it says phone messages are not generally taken. Japanese speakers can use supornclinic.jp, the clinic's Japanese-language site, which is run by a Japanese attendant company that also offers interpreting. We have found no official mention of any other language.

Our role. We are an independent booking platform and have no part in running the clinic. If you send a request through us, we forward it to The Suporn Clinic, chase it where needed, explain what documents and history the clinic wants, and get back to you with what it can offer in terms of surgeon, dates and next steps. There is no charge for this. The clinic's own client profile, medical-team review, quotation and deposit remain between you and the clinic, and no date is held until the clinic confirms it.

Planning. Budget for the 30 days the clinic prefers rather than the 24-day minimum, choose flights you can change, and check early whether your passport needs a visa or an extension for a month-long stay. Many patients travel with a companion. Before flying home, ask for English-language operation notes to give your own doctor, and agree how you will reach the clinic if a concern arises after the one-year email advice period ends.

The address the clinic publishes is 938 Sukhumvit Road, Bangplasoi, Muang District, Chonburi 20000. That places it in Bang Pla Soi, within Mueang Chon Buri, the provincial capital, rather than in Pattaya. On our site it appears in the Pattaya & Chonburi area listing, which groups providers across the province. The clinic gives its distance from Bangkok as about 80 km, to the south-east.

A typical stay involves three addresses:

• The clinic on Sukhumvit Road, Bang Pla Soi: consultations, check-ups, and its own operating theatre with recovery rooms.
• Samitivej Chonburi Hospital, about 5 km away: operations under general anaesthetic and the inpatient stay.
• The Rattanachol Hotel, where patients normally stay, within walking distance of the clinic (the clinic's pages put it at roughly 200 to 300 metres).

Because the clinic collects patients from Bangkok airport and handles transport between these three places, most international patients do not need to organise their own. If you plan to make your own way to Chonburi, settle the meeting point with the clinic beforehand. There is no official map pin on the clinic's website, so search the written address in your map app, and see our Samitivej Chonburi Hospital profile for details of the hospital.

Start with the request form for The Suporn Clinic, or request a named surgeon: Dr. Bank (Dr. Chayamote Chayangsu) or Dr. Prae. As Dr. Suporn is not on the current calendar, we do not suggest requesting a primary operation with him; if there is something you want to ask about his involvement, put it in your message.

It helps to know how the clinic reserves dates on its side:

1. Pick the operation, full-depth SRS or SDV, and for SRS a preference for Dr. Bank or Dr. Prae; the clinic's calendar shows which dates each surgeon has open.
2. Fill in the clinic's client profile with your personal, medical and surgical history. For first-time clients, the medical team has to approve it before any date can be held.
3. Receive a quotation made out for you; there is no public price list.
4. Secure the date by paying a deposit of 20% or more of the quotation within 14 days of your reservation request.
5. Book travel that allows at least 24 days in Thailand, 30 if you can, and send your arrival details so the clinic can collect you from the airport.

We help with the early part: checking which surgeon and dates the clinic can offer you, telling you what it needs, and following up if an answer is slow. The quotation, deposit and confirmation all come from the clinic, and nothing is booked until The Suporn Clinic confirms. Our help costs nothing.

To compare options first, look at the other surgeons and hospitals on our vaginoplasty page, browse the wider gender-affirming surgery section, or read about how we research providers.

The more complete your first message, the sooner the clinic's medical team can look at your case. With a consultation request through us, include:

• Which operation: full-depth SRS, shallow- or zero-depth SDV, or cosmetic improvement after SRS at this clinic (give the date of your original operation).
• Surgeon and timing: Dr. Bank, Dr. Prae or either, plus the months when you could spend 24 to 30 days in Thailand.
• Age: relevant because the clinic has extra requirements under 20 and does not take SRS patients aged 55 or over.
• Health history: conditions, current medicines, allergies and past operations, including any orchiectomy or earlier genital surgery.
• Hormones: what you take and since when.
• Letters: the clinic wants written diagnoses or referrals from psychosexual professionals for SRS; tell us what you have, and the clinic will say whether it meets its requirements.
• Hair removal: any electrolysis or laser already done in the genital and groin area, since the clinic's published abstracts describe grafts from the scrotum and groin.
• Approval for 18- and 19-year-olds: who will provide the written consent the clinic requires.

Genital photographs are not needed in a first message. If the clinic asks for them later, our patient team will send you a secure way to upload them. Write your name exactly as it appears in your passport, because the clinic's paperwork, including the post-operative medical certificate, will carry it.