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gender-affirming care
[jen-der uh-fur-ming kair]
noun
medical, social, and psychological approaches and therapies that aim to affirm a transgender patient's identity or align their physical characteristics more closely with their gender: Many transgender Americans struggle to access gender-affirming care in their own city.
The research team included experts in endocrinology, urology, and gender-affirming care.
Many transgender Americans struggle to access gender-affirming care in their own city.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of gender-affirming care1
Example Sentences
For good measure, it also asks whether voters want “to protect children from gender transition,” even though gender-affirming care for minors is already illegal in the state.
That would apply not just to abortion but to birth control, treatment for sexually transmitted infections, and gender-affirming care.
It called for new bans on federal funding being used for gender-affirming care and for “gender ideology” to be removed from all school curricula, suggested transgender athletes were endangering girls’ sports, and called for the total erasure of transgender people in federal regulations, policies and materials.
His administration announced a ban on transgender service members, erased LGBTQ+-related materials across government, threatened local schools that allow transgender athletes to compete, threatened hospitals that provide gender-affirming care, and announced it was clawing back funding from organizations that provide healthcare to the LGBTQ+ community.
It also called for bans on federal funding for gender-affirming care and for “gender ideology” to be removed from all school curricula, suggested transgender athletes were endangering girls’ sports, and called for the total erasure of transgender identities in federal regulations, policies and materials.
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