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.

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    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…

    Most of the people taking them get really upset when you explain how broad “peptides” are, and what they’re actually doing is hormone therapy to make their physical body identify math their mental perception of who they are…

    They’re not transitioning, but they’re still undergoing gender affirming hormone therapy.

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        20 hours ago

        You called it gender affirming care

        Yes…

        That implies gender dysphoria

        No.

        Really not complicated

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          20 hours ago

          It does by definition.

          Gender-affirming care, as defined by the World Health Organization, includes a range of social, psychological, behavioral, and medical interventions designed to support and affirm an individual’s gender identity when it differs from the sex they were assigned at birth.

          It’s really not complicated. Hormones being involved don’t inherently make it gender affirming care.

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            14 hours ago

            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 …

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              11 hours ago

              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.

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                  6 hours ago

                  They call “incongruence” and “dysphoria” the same thing just a different word despite also saying “words have meaning”.

                  I wouldn’t bother.

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                  10 hours ago

                  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