diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index d291551691c..4e93b3be970 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/google/s2a-go v0.1.4
 	github.com/google/uuid v1.3.0
 	github.com/googleapis/enterprise-certificate-proxy v0.2.5
-	github.com/googleapis/gax-go/v2 v2.11.0
+	github.com/googleapis/gax-go/v2 v2.12.0
 	go.opencensus.io v0.24.0
 	golang.org/x/net v0.12.0
 	golang.org/x/oauth2 v0.9.0
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 52cbfc11b72..f1acacb3875 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ github.com/google/uuid v1.3.0 h1:t6JiXgmwXMjEs8VusXIJk2BXHsn+wx8BZdTaoZ5fu7I=
 github.com/google/uuid v1.3.0/go.mod h1:TIyPZe4MgqvfeYDBFedMoGGpEw/LqOeaOT+nhxU+yHo=
 github.com/googleapis/enterprise-certificate-proxy v0.2.5 h1:UR4rDjcgpgEnqpIEvkiqTYKBCKLNmlge2eVjoZfySzM=
 github.com/googleapis/enterprise-certificate-proxy v0.2.5/go.mod h1:RxW0N9901Cko1VOCW3SXCpWP+mlIEkk2tP7jnHy9a3w=
-github.com/googleapis/gax-go/v2 v2.11.0 h1:9V9PWXEsWnPpQhu/PeQIkS4eGzMlTLGgt80cUUI8Ki4=
-github.com/googleapis/gax-go/v2 v2.11.0/go.mod h1:DxmR61SGKkGLa2xigwuZIQpkCI2S5iydzRfb3peWZJI=
+github.com/googleapis/gax-go/v2 v2.12.0 h1:A+gCJKdRfqXkr+BIRGtZLibNXf0m1f9E4HG56etFpas=
+github.com/googleapis/gax-go/v2 v2.12.0/go.mod h1:y+aIqrI5eb1YGMVJfuV3185Ts/D7qKpsEkdD5+I6QGU=
 github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway v1.16.0/go.mod h1:BDjrQk3hbvj6Nolgz8mAMFbcEtjT1g+wF4CSlocrBnw=
 github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.0/go.mod h1:iKH77koFhYxTK1pcRnkKkqfTogsbg7gZNVY4sRDYZ/4=
 github.com/prometheus/client_model v0.0.0-20190812154241-14fe0d1b01d4/go.mod h1:xMI15A0UPsDsEKsMN9yxemIoYk6Tm2C1GtYGdfGttqA=
diff --git a/internal/gensupport/send.go b/internal/gensupport/send.go
index 693a1b1abaf..f39dd00d99f 100644
--- a/internal/gensupport/send.go
+++ b/internal/gensupport/send.go
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/google/uuid"
 	"github.com/googleapis/gax-go/v2"
+	"github.com/googleapis/gax-go/v2/callctx"
 )
 
 // Use this error type to return an error which allows introspection of both
@@ -43,6 +44,16 @@ func (e wrappedCallErr) Is(target error) bool {
 // req.WithContext, then calls any functions returned by the hooks in
 // reverse order.
 func SendRequest(ctx context.Context, client *http.Client, req *http.Request) (*http.Response, error) {
+	// Add headers set in context metadata.
+	if ctx != nil {
+		headers := callctx.HeadersFromContext(ctx)
+		for k, vals := range headers {
+			for _, v := range vals {
+				req.Header.Add(k, v)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
 	// Disallow Accept-Encoding because it interferes with the automatic gzip handling
 	// done by the default http.Transport. See https://github.com/google/google-api-go-client/issues/219.
 	if _, ok := req.Header["Accept-Encoding"]; ok {
@@ -77,6 +88,16 @@ func send(ctx context.Context, client *http.Client, req *http.Request) (*http.Re
 // req.WithContext, then calls any functions returned by the hooks in
 // reverse order.
 func SendRequestWithRetry(ctx context.Context, client *http.Client, req *http.Request, retry *RetryConfig) (*http.Response, error) {
+	// Add headers set in context metadata.
+	if ctx != nil {
+		headers := callctx.HeadersFromContext(ctx)
+		for k, vals := range headers {
+			for _, v := range vals {
+				req.Header.Add(k, v)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
 	// Disallow Accept-Encoding because it interferes with the automatic gzip handling
 	// done by the default http.Transport. See https://github.com/google/google-api-go-client/issues/219.
 	if _, ok := req.Header["Accept-Encoding"]; ok {
diff --git a/internal/gensupport/send_test.go b/internal/gensupport/send_test.go
index bdc074c81af..59534408393 100644
--- a/internal/gensupport/send_test.go
+++ b/internal/gensupport/send_test.go
@@ -7,8 +7,12 @@ package gensupport
 import (
 	"context"
 	"errors"
+	"fmt"
 	"net/http"
 	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/google/go-cmp/cmp"
+	"github.com/googleapis/gax-go/v2/callctx"
 )
 
 func TestSendRequest(t *testing.T) {
@@ -31,6 +35,39 @@ func TestSendRequestWithRetry(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+type headerRoundTripper struct {
+	wantHeader http.Header
+}
+
+func (rt *headerRoundTripper) RoundTrip(r *http.Request) (*http.Response, error) {
+	// Ignore x-goog headers sent by SendRequestWithRetry
+	r.Header.Del("X-Goog-Api-Client")
+	r.Header.Del("X-Goog-Gcs-Idempotency-Token")
+	if diff := cmp.Diff(r.Header, rt.wantHeader); diff != "" {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("headers don't match: %v", diff)
+	}
+	return &http.Response{StatusCode: 200}, nil
+}
+
+// Ensure that headers set via the context are passed through to the request as expected.
+func TestSendRequestHeader(t *testing.T) {
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	ctx = callctx.SetHeaders(ctx, "foo", "100", "bar", "200")
+	client := http.Client{
+		Transport: &headerRoundTripper{
+			wantHeader: map[string][]string{"Foo": {"100"}, "Bar": {"200"}},
+		},
+	}
+	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "url", nil)
+	if _, err := SendRequest(ctx, &client, req); err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("SendRequest: %v", err)
+	}
+	req2, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "url", nil)
+	if _, err := SendRequestWithRetry(ctx, &client, req2, nil); err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("SendRequest: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
 type brokenRoundTripper struct{}
 
 func (t *brokenRoundTripper) RoundTrip(r *http.Request) (*http.Response, error) {