Affirming means somebody making a positive claim. You can't "affirm" a different gender from your birth certificate because that's a negative statement.
What they're actually doing is "gender denying" care. Denying is the negative sense version of affirming.
It's like calling abortions reproductive health care. It's a term they try to come up with that sounds nice when what they want to do is ugly. Will never use.
If you wanted to be not sensationalist but honest you could call it surgical gender change. Administration of sexual hormones. If you want to avoid specifics you could say Transsexual Medical Support.
Bringing gender in is specifically misleading. (As most people understand gender: social expression of sex). Gender is only relevant to psychiatry. A surgery could never alter your gender.
"Gender affirming" before clown world.
Affirming means somebody making a positive claim. You can't "affirm" a different gender from your birth certificate because that's a negative statement.
What they're actually doing is "gender denying" care. Denying is the negative sense version of affirming.
It's like calling abortions reproductive health care. It's a term they try to come up with that sounds nice when what they want to do is ugly. Will never use.
If you wanted to be not sensationalist but honest you could call it surgical gender change. Administration of sexual hormones. If you want to avoid specifics you could say Transsexual Medical Support.
Bringing gender in is specifically misleading. (As most people understand gender: social expression of sex). Gender is only relevant to psychiatry. A surgery could never alter your gender.