This is why we have a rule against commercial promotion of surgeons

Rule 6 was added to this sub about a year ago to protect members of our community against unfair commercial influence by surgeons.

6. Posts by people with a commercial interest in members decisions. Please follow these rules. You will be assigned a light yellow flair next to your user name.

We have surgeons and their representatives who post in this sub, all of whom follow rule 6, don't advertise and have a flair identifying themselves as having a commercial interest. Some of their comments have been very helpful.

So, I've been reluctant to do this but I feel the need to speak up about some activity I'm seeing here on reddit promoting Thai surgeon Dr Kamol Pansritum. We're having life changing surgeries based on what we read here.

Earlier this year there were posts by u/Kamol-Hospital directly advertising Dr Kamol. I gave them the usual notification regarding rule 6 and removed their post, and they did it again. I removed that too. They gave up.

Then some time later along comes new user u/ChrissyJ1978 who starts posting glowing reports about Dr Kamol. After seeing a few of these (ie 15 out of 15 posts promoting Dr Kamol) I finally said something. She's posted about 90 times now, almost every one of which is about Dr Kamol.

Shortly after this warning another reddit account pops up, u/transwoman42, to say good things about Dr Kamol and supporting ChrissyJ1978's comments - and she had PPV last year

I agree chrissyj1978 i went to the Kamol hospital for my PPV last year and they were amazing, I'm so happy with the results. Dr Kamol is a legend and comes highly recommended

Fair's fair, though ChrissyJ1978 posts supporting transwoman42.

I'm so happy for you Transwoman42 and without sounding condescending very proud of you 35 years is a long time to live in denial and also very mentally frustrating as i can only imagine, good for you xx. I also have had experiences with the kamol hospital, dr.Kamol is very very good at what he does, your in very safe hands, have you been there before??. I wish you all the best in life, let us all know how it goes.

This doesn't prove anything you might think, but both of them posted their photos, and they look remarkably, absolutely, identical. Here's transwoman42 and here's ChrissyJ1978

After I banned them all she setup another sub r/TransgenderSurgeries, and they are 'both' mods.

She also announced her YouTube channel A Transgender Vlog, My Journey where you can hear more on this subject. There's also some Facebook groups, but I've not looked at those.

I've noticed a recent up-tick of interest in Dr Kamol on reddit, so I believe this is having some influence. Hence this post. I'd probably not have said anything otherwise, but I can't stand by and say nothing at this point.

I may post screen captures later if the links get deleted.