In a unilateral declaration by the health secretary, several injections promoted by online influencers will become widely available. The F.D.A. had advised against the move.
In a unilateral declaration by the health secretary, several injections promoted by online influencers will become widely available. The F.D.A. had advised against the move.
Body dysmorphic disorder doesn’t have to have a gender dysphoria component.
Gender affirming care does not require gender dysphoria.
Viagra and Cialis are medicines in support gender affirming care. Gynecomastia is performed for men who were amab all the time. Laser hair removal, penile implants, breast augmentation, birth control, rhinoplasty…
All gender affirming care that does not require gender dysphoria to be gender affirming care.
It does if you’re going by the WHO definition.
All of the things you listed have nothing to do with gender affirmation.
Physical symptoms, body distress, or hormonal imbalances can still occur in cis people, caused by medical conditions (endocrine disorders, PCOS, gynecomastia, or body dysmorphia), and not gender dysphoria.
It’s not gender affirming care either.
Having physically presenting breasts as a male when amab (gynecomastia) addressed by male breast reduction surgery is a pretty easy example of how it is gender affirming care.
Medical organizations, legal courts, and bioethicists define gender-affirming care as any healthcare intervention that aligns a person’s physical body and expression with their internal gender identity.
It absolutely is gender affirming care. Ask a medical provider if you need help understanding this.
Gender affirming care is specifically for gender dysphoria. By definition.
Gynecomastia would be body dysphoria, not gender.
You’d really do well to read more of the WHO’s posts on this topic, as gender affirming care does not require gender dysphoria.
https://www.who.int/standards/classifications/frequently-asked-questions/gender-incongruence-and-transgender-health-in-the-icd
Note that nowhere does this say “gender dysphoria”.
Because it isn’t a requirement for gender affirming care. It is often talked about in the context of gender dysphoria. That does not, in any way, make it an inherent requirement for gender affirming care.
I’d also refer you to the ICD-11. Dysphoria is a profound discomfort or dissatisfaction. Even gender incongruence (which you may be incorrectly referring to as dysphoria) does not require gender dysphoria.
There is no requirement for dysphoria. There is no requirement for gender to be differing from their assignment at birth. The only requirement under ICD-11 (WHO) is the mismatch between body/social identity and their internal identity. Thats it.
Please stop trying to quote something you don’t even understand.
From your own link:
The definition is provided on an article about gender dysphoria, although using a different name for it.
It doesn’t mean that reproductive health care and body affirming treatment is gender affirming care.
It’s affirming care for when your birth gender is different from the gender you feel.
No one implied it did…
Or didn’t…
No one even brought up gender dysphoria or body dysmorphic disorder…
Did you mean to reply to someone else? Because there’s a weird trend of people doing what you just did and claiming I said wild shit I clearly didn’t.
Like, my comment is right there…
You called it gender affirming care. That implies gender dysphoria
Yes…
No.
Really not complicated
It does by definition.
It’s really not complicated. Hormones being involved don’t inherently make it gender affirming care.
So…
When the medical community called any form of lgbtq a mental illness…
You agreed with them?
Because they’re doctors?
Just blind obedience and zero thinking on your own behalf?
That must be so relaxing …
What are you talking about? Gender affirming care is specifically care for gender dysphoria.
Just because something is tangentially related to gender doesn’t make it gender affirming care.
Welp, guess it’s time to accept you can’t understand this.
Best of luck with your life
They call “incongruence” and “dysphoria” the same thing just a different word despite also saying “words have meaning”.
I wouldn’t bother.
I’m not the one who doesn’t understand that words have meanings.
I understand what you’re saying, and I’m saying you’re objectively wrong