Let’s say I, a middle aged cis man went to my doctor, wanting gender affirming care, and my doctor wanted to provide - what, if anything, would the treatment/care consist of? Just making sure my testosterone level was up to Hegseth-approved standards?

  • GreyEyedGhost@piefed.caEnglish
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    18 days ago

    Vision correction isn’t gender affirming care. Diabetes treatment isn’t gender affirming care. Heart transplants aren’t gender affirming care. If the scope of what is commonly or medically termed gender affirming care is broadened, these will not be included, because they have nothing to do with gender.

    • southsamurai (he/him/pronoun agnostic)@sh.itjust.works
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      17 days ago

      And your point is?

      Seriously, as a tangent it’s fine, but it’s rather badly formed. I don’t think anyone claimed that diabetes is gender affirming. And nobody with sense could read my comment and think that I’m claiming either that, or that a future definition of gender affirming care won’t involve things which are substantially similar to treatments currently grouped under that heading.

      So, I’m not sure why you’re bringing heart transplants or diabetes up, it makes zero sense in this context.

      • GreyEyedGhost@piefed.caEnglish
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        17 days ago

        See, if you’re cis, all medical care is gender affirming to some degree. Some of that is stretching the concept to the breaking point, but the core of the term is about providing care that modifies the body from one’s assumed gender to that which matches the internal gender.

        That’s what you said. Not all care is about gender because not everything about being alive is about gender. That is irrespective of whether your cis or trans. That isn’t stretching the concept to the breaking point, but well beyond it.