gender-affirming
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Etymology
From gender + affirming, "bringing into conformance with [the person's] gender".
Adjective
gender-affirming (not comparable)
- (medicine, transgender) Inducing a change in the physical gender characteristics, whether surgically, pharmaceutically, or otherwise, typically of a transgender or intersex person.
- 2023 May 3, “North Carolina House OKs Ban on Transgender Youth Surgeries”, in U.S. News & World Report:
- Transgender youth in North Carolina would have to wait until they turn 18 to receive gender-affirming surgeries under a bill approved Wednesday by the GOP-controlled state House.
- 2023 June 7, “Gender-Affirming Care for Cisgender People”, in Hastings Center Report, :
- We stress that reconstructive breast surgeries and testicular implants are gender-affirming interventions—rather than interventions provided through a generic form of respect for persons—because gender is a morally significant, social category that shapes how individuals regard themselves and understand each other.
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