gender-affirming care

[ jen-der uh-fur-ming kair ]

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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.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of gender-affirming care¹

First recorded in 2005–10

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Voters might like the idea of banning gender-affirming care for minors without remembering that the state already prohibits it.

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The amendment would also ban gender-affirming care for minors, which Missouri law already prohibits.

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Denying access to gender-affirming care, as the Trump administration aims to do, increases the risk that a person will experience depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation.

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Kim Reynolds, the governor of Iowa, recently signed a bill stripping trans men and women of civil rights and employment protections, Indiana has enacted harsh restrictions against gender-affirming care, and in deeper red states such as Texas, there is a large scale agenda to “restrict trans lives,” in the words of a Texas Tribune headline.

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He authored the state House's version of a bill to ban gender-affirming care for minors in the state.

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