Comment on Is gender affirming care for cis people a thing?
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 1 day agoI 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”.
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
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
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)