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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      You called it gender affirming care

      Yes…

      That implies gender dysphoria

      No.

      Really not complicated

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        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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          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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            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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                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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                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