Comment on Is gender affirming care for cis people a thing?
plateee@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Look at any tough-guy gym… There’ll be testosterone offered to make you a “real man”.
Or breast implants for women who want bigger boobs. Those are both designed to help cis folks feel more like they’re the man/woman they think they need to be.
Which is why if gender affirming care is ever outlawed in my purple/red state, I’m going to be reporting the fuck out of the maga gym near by.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s not gender affirming care. That’s just men practicing and enhancing their masculinity.
It may be founded in insecurities, but those would be treated by a psychologist if an actual treatment were to take place.
404@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Is “I hate my shoulders, I wish they were broader so that I could look more manly” and “I hate my boobs, I look like a plank, not a real woman” not dysphoric enough for you?
Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
“I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I was a baller, I wish I had a girl who looked good I would call her, I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat and a '64 impala”
So is buying a classic car gender affirmation?
Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s not dysphoric but an issue with the standards for being what you feel you are.
Living up to ideals is not the same as being a prisoner in a body of a different gender than what you identify as.
Having a penis and hating it to a point where you want it removed, is not the same as having a penis that you think is to small.
Those are VERY different issues.
The issues may be valid, they are just not the same as gender dysphoria.
404@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
What’s the difference between a cis woman with small boobs getting a boob job, and a trans woman with small boobs getting a boob job?
And between a cis man with big boobs getting them removed, and a trans man with big boobs getting them removed?
I agree your examples are very different issues. Comparing a micro penis to bottom surgery is kind of unfair. Let’s compare total penis reconstruction after injury (phalloplasty for cis men) to penis construction (phalloplasty for trans men) instead. It’s the same procedure and it serves the same purpose, to create a penis for a patient that doesn’t have one. Is a cis man that lost his penis in war body dysmorphic?
isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
This has big “only trans people have gender identity” energy.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
You don’t know the meaning of the word.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
roiding up, PED is most certainly gender affirming care, that is also railed on transgendered people.