Let’s say I, a middle aged cis man went to my doctor, wanting gender affirming care, and my doctor wanted to provide - what, if anything, would the treatment/care consist of? Just making sure my testosterone level was up to Hegseth-approved standards?
I am not thinking about it from a binary gender standpoint. I think of it more like “what I am naturally looking like is not how I believe I am supposed to look”.
But is that gender affirming care or is that just care?
It feels like otherwise the definition is to vague, like using lotion, getting braces, or even getting a tattoo would be gender affirming care under that definition
Those aren’t really to affirm one’s gender as they are gender neutral actions
Like a person shaving their body hair to appear less masculine makes sense but a person shaving their body hair for swimming doesn’t make sense
That’s the neat part, it is all just “care”.
The whole thing gets muddy AF when one tries to squeeze definitions that make sense out of a box stuffed with binary gender and stereotyped gender “norms” that are not representative of real life. It is ridiculous to try to shove all possible characteristics of a person’s body into either “masculine” or “feminine” columns seemingly just to keep score for how “manly” or “feminine” the person is. (not saying you are doing this btw, this is a critique of a lot of our current society at large)