Comment on Is gender affirming care for cis people a thing?

• Crozekiel@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I am not thinking about it from a binary gender standpoint. I think of it more like “what I am naturally looking like is not how I believe I am supposed to look”.

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  • BussyCat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    But is that gender affirming care or is that just care?

    It feels like otherwise the definition is to vague, like using lotion, getting braces, or even getting a tattoo would be gender affirming care under that definition

    Those aren’t really to affirm one’s gender as they are gender neutral actions

    Like a person shaving their body hair to appear less masculine makes sense but a person shaving their body hair for swimming doesn’t make sense

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    • Crozekiel@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      But is that gender affirming care or is that just care?

      That’s the neat part, it is all just “care”.

      The whole thing gets muddy AF when one tries to squeeze definitions that make sense out of a box stuffed with binary gender and stereotyped gender “norms” that are not representative of real life. It is ridiculous to try to shove all possible characteristics of a person’s body into either “masculine” or “feminine” columns seemingly just to keep score for how “manly” or “feminine” the person is. (not saying you are doing this btw, this is a critique of a lot of our current society at large)

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