In a unilateral declaration by the health secretary, several injections promoted by online influencers will become widely available. The F.D.A. had advised against the move.

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[–] 0 points 9 hours ago (8 children)

Body dysmorphic disorder doesn't have to have a gender dysphoria component.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

    Gender affirming care does not require gender dysphoria.

    Viagra and Cialis are medicines in support gender affirming care. Gynecomastia is performed for men who were amab all the time. Laser hair removal, penile implants, breast augmentation, birth control, rhinoplasty....

    All gender affirming care that does not require gender dysphoria to be gender affirming care.

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  • [–] -1 points 8 hours ago* (1 child)

    It does if you're going by the WHO definition.

    Gender-affirming care, as defined by the World Health Organization, includes a range of social, psychological, behavioral, and medical interventions designed to support and affirm an individual’s gender identity when it differs from the sex they were assigned at birth.

    All of the things you listed have nothing to do with gender affirmation.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 hours ago* (4 children)

    No one implied it did...

    Or didn't...

    No one even brought up gender dysphoria or body dysmorphic disorder...

    Did you mean to reply to someone else? Because there's a weird trend of people doing what you just did and claiming I said wild shit I clearly didn't.

    Like, my comment is right there...

    Most of the people taking them get really upset when you explain how broad “peptides” are, and what they’re actually doing is hormone therapy to make their physical body identify math their mental perception of who they are…

    They’re not transitioning, but they’re still undergoing gender affirming hormone therapy.

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  • [–] -1 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

    You called it gender affirming care. That implies gender dysphoria

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  • [–] 2 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

    You called it gender affirming care

    Yes...

    That implies gender dysphoria

    No.

    Really not complicated

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  • [–] 0 points 7 hours ago* (1 child)

    It does by definition.

    Gender-affirming care, as defined by the World Health Organization, includes a range of social, psychological, behavioral, and medical interventions designed to support and affirm an individual’s gender identity when it differs from the sex they were assigned at birth.

    It's really not complicated. Hormones being involved don't inherently make it gender affirming care.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago

    So...

    When the medical community called any form of lgbtq a mental illness...

    You agreed with them?

    Because they're doctors?

    Just blind obedience and zero thinking on your own behalf?

    That must be so relaxing ...

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