Gender-affirming

According to NORC at the University of Chicago, 58 percent of Americans support allowing parents of transgender children to access gender-affirming care for them.

Gender-affirming care is controversial politically, not medically.

None of the people trying to ban gender-affirming care for teens are interested in also banning breast implants for teenage cis girls.

Gender-affirming care is an evidence-based practice.

Marriage has a higher regret rate than gender-affirming care.

People are at least four times as likely to regret having children as they are to regret gender-affirming surgeries.

The regret rate for gender-affirming care is very low, probably because the only advantage to transitioning is that it gets rid of gender dysphoria.

Gender-affirming care isn't experimental by any standard other than the "reactionaries don't like it" standard.

Trans minors receiving gender-affirming care experienced a 73% reduction in suicidality.

Most bans on gender-affirming care explicitly carve out exceptions for the only actual child genital mutilation going on, that against intersex babies.

Transgender youth in North Carolina would have to wait until they turn 18 to receive gender-affirming surgeries under a bill approved Wednesday by the GOP-controlled state House.

We stress that reconstructive breast surgeries and testicular implants are gender-affirming interventions—rather than interventions provided through a generic form of respect for persons—because gender is a morally significant, social category that shapes how individuals regard themselves and understand each other.

But in 2020, after coming across detransition videos online, she began to doubt the gender-affirming model.