gender-affirming care

[jen-der uh-fur-ming kair]

noun

1. 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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of gender-affirming care¹

First recorded in 2005–10

Example Sentences

Last term, she noted, the court upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors.

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Skrmetti, the Supreme Court upheld a Tennessee statute that outlawed gender-affirming care for minors.

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But states’ restrictions on gender-affirming care increasingly involve censorship of speech as well, and conservative judges appear untroubled.

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Weiss has built a career railing against “wokeness,” and her critics fear this could mean a CBS News more sympathetic to her causes: more unconditional support of Israel, more antagonism wielded at “the left,” and more Crossfire-style “debates” over common bugbears like Zohran Mamdani and gender-affirming care.

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Really, these are harmless and brief segments weaponized on behalf of a conservative movement that’s been seeking to erase transgender identity altogether, from pseudoscientific efforts to outlaw gender-affirming care for minors to scrubbing trans Americans from historical monuments.

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