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I fail to see how this is gender affirming care
by david38 2y ago
I fail to see how this is gender affirming care
- ocular-rockular 2y agoIt's literally something that helps maintain a physical aspect associated with a person's gender. Granted, hairloss can happen to anybody, but baldness is highly predominant towards the male population.
- maximus-decimus 2y agoI don't understand, is your argument that curing baldness is mostly for trans because it help men get rid of male pattern baldness?
- cschmittiey 2y agoMany men aren’t happy about balding, especially earlier in life. They feel distress at their body not presenting the way they want it to (with hair!). hence, gender affirming care.
- stackyfunger 2y agoBut male pattern baldness is a male trait. So to affirm, wouldn't it be more of this? Men getting their hair follicles removed to emphasise this male condition. It doesn't really make any sense to say that preventing a natural feature of men from progressing is being done to affirm men.
- THroaway225 2y agoBaldness IS a male trait. preventing baldness is about looking attractive, not about "being a man."
- maximus-decimus 2y agoI've never heard anyone argue that men with no hair loss are less manly so no I don't think it counts as gender affirming care. I have man boobs, I guess fixing that would technically be gender affirming care because I'm embarrassed of having female features, but balding is really a stretch.
- croisillon 2y agoAnd among those men notably both the current President of the USA and Donald J Trump
- ocular-rockular 2y agoWhat? I never said that. I was explaining gender affirming care. It's not a trans exclusive thing necessarily.
- WithinReason 2y agoIt's baldness that's associated with gender, not the lack of it.
- bdangubic 2y agothis is THE definition of it
- jadamson 2y agoIt's called "male pattern baldness" and is caused by androgens, counteracting it would be 'less male'. And that's without mentioning the social aspect of focus on appearance, which is generally feminine-coded.
- stackyfunger 2y agoMale pattern baldness progresses with age, so attempting to prevent it is affirming, if anything, a desire to appear younger than one actually is.