Scooter wrote: ↑Sat Sep 25, 2021 6:07 pm"Gender affirming" is used to describe such surgeries because they are bringing the body in line with the gender the person already knows themself to be. As opposed to older terms like "sex change" or "gender reassignment" which suggest that it is the surgery itself that is changing the person's gender.
Horseshit.
"Gender affirming" means a patronizing acceptance of a delusional world view. Just like Michael Jacksons many surgeries were the outward expression of pathology. Confusion should not be encouraged.
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