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It's not gender affirming care either.
Having physically presenting breasts as a male when amab (gynecomastia) addressed by male breast reduction surgery is a pretty easy example of how it is gender affirming care.
Medical organizations, legal courts, and bioethicists define gender-affirming care as any healthcare intervention that aligns a person’s physical body and expression with their internal gender identity.
It absolutely is gender affirming care. Ask a medical provider if you need help understanding this.
Gender affirming care is specifically for gender dysphoria. By definition.
Gynecomastia would be body dysphoria, not gender.
You'd really do well to read more of the WHO's posts on this topic, as gender affirming care does not require gender dysphoria.
https://www.who.int/standards/classifications/frequently-asked-questions/gender-incongruence-and-transgender-health-in-the-icd
Note that nowhere does this say "gender dysphoria".
Because it isn't a requirement for gender affirming care. It is often talked about in the context of gender dysphoria. That does not, in any way, make it an inherent requirement for gender affirming care.
I'd also refer you to the ICD-11. Dysphoria is a profound discomfort or dissatisfaction. Even gender incongruence (which you may be incorrectly referring to as dysphoria) does not require gender dysphoria.
There is no requirement for dysphoria. There is no requirement for gender to be differing from their assignment at birth. The only requirement under ICD-11 (WHO) is the mismatch between body/social identity and their internal identity. Thats it.
Please stop trying to quote something you don't even understand.
From your own link:
The definition is provided on an article about gender dysphoria, although using a different name for it.
It doesn't mean that reproductive health care and body affirming treatment is gender affirming care.
It's affirming care for when your birth gender is different from the gender you feel.
Holy fuck you're still going despite being so blatantly wrong.
experienced gender.
Please re-read those two words as many times as it takes.
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THIS SENTENCE ALONE SHOWS HOW MUCH YOU DONT UNDERSTAND.
Gender dysphoria is not a different name for gender incongruence.
You are as far from having a clue on what you're parroting as you could possibly be. Please stop.
I won't bother with you further. Go educate yourself, and stop pretending to know what the fuck youre talking about. I can tell you, you don't.
You left off "and their assigned sex". That bit is important.
Gender dysphoria is the psychological distress caused by gender incongruence, which is what gender affirming care treats.
At no point does the article suggest that all care related to gender is gender affirming.
It's like saying removing a glioblastoma is mental health care. It has to do with the brain, but the treatment isn't for mental health purposes. The reason for the treatment is important.
Like having breasts, feeling male, and being assigned male at birth?
You have no idea what you're paraphrasing.
Just stop. You're wrong.
Says the person claiming that treating endocrine disorders is gender affirming care...
You're objectively wrong. Your own sources confirm it, but you keep trying to extrapolate it to mean something it doesn't.
Gender affirming care is not an umbrella term. For example, I'm not on testosterone because my low T makes me feel like a woman. I'm on it because my low T causes extreme fatigue. It has nothing to do with my gender identity.
I wouldn't get my gynecomastia fixed because it makes me feel like less of a man. I'd get it fixed because it raises my risk of breast cancer.
The reason for the treatment is crucial to whether it's gender affirming or not.