gender affirmation
Confirming one's identity
Gender affirmation is the process of aligning one's external presentation, body, or social recognition with one's internal sense of gender identity.
This may include social changes like names and pronouns, medical interventions like hormones or surgery, or legal changes to identity documents.
The term emphasizes support rather than pathology: gender-affirming care, gender affirmation surgery.
Someone who is gender-affirming validates another person's gender identity.
- transgenderGender differs from assignment
- transitionChange from one state
- hormonesBloodstream signaling molecules
- hormone therapyTreatment using body's messengers
- surgeryInvasive medical procedure
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- transgendertrans women, trans men, trans woman, trans man, transwoman
gender affirmationmisgendering
Incorrectly identifying someone's gender
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