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Alternative to "gender affirming care."

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Everythingtastesbetterwithcheese · 02/04/2025 23:10

I was on a discussion recently in which a poster said she didn't consider the double mastectomy a young woman had gone through in order to transition to a man, as radical surgery, claiming it was only "gender affirming care" and no different to a woman having lip fillers. This made me think the language we are using is minimising the actual brutality of the surgery and it feels like using the word care only has positive connotations when I think a lot of the treatment is negative.
What other term can I use instead of gender affirming care which is more realistic to what it actually is?

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Bannedontherun · 02/04/2025 23:28

@ScrollingLeaves Yep thats a good one.

Bannedontherun · 02/04/2025 23:27

Amputation for mental health reasons, it is so awful it cannot be given a slip of the tongue sound bite, a kind of to gender affirming care.

ScrollingLeaves · 02/04/2025 23:27

MyrtleLion · 02/04/2025 23:11

Breast amputation.

Radical surgical body modifications.

SinnerBoy · 02/04/2025 23:19

Blimey. Just blimey.

I bet she's never watched any of those programmes about surgery. As you say, it's brutal and absolutely removed from an injection of Polyfilla. And that's without the difference between a procedure which can change your reproductive and child care possibilities.

It's like saying a henna tattoo is akin to a double leg amputation.

MyrtleLion · 02/04/2025 23:11

Breast amputation.