truekayos-deactivated20241121:
normalize calling viagra and menopausal hormone treatments gender affirming care
the absolute terror people have about transgender hrt is diminished when you point out that actually, my mom does the same thing and so does yours probably 🤷♀️ pretty banal in reality
Posts like these are the leftist equivalent of Ben Shapiro tweets. Just so misinformed, ignorant, and based solely in personal opinion or emotion, that you can’t even begin to properly address it without teaching a college course.
Gender affirming therapies are good, but these things are clearly not GATs. I don’t know why you would say this, but it’s annoying. I am tired of people sprinkling the right dressing onto their word salad and getting huge traction from an unthinking, uninformed userbase.
Hi, I’m Kay. I was a pharmacy technician for fifteen years, ten of which were at an independently owned pharmacy. I read pharmacological studies and assisted in compounding medications as requested by the doctors in my area.
Erectile dysfunction medications absolutely are gender affirming therapy. Their primary function is to allow cisgender men to maintain an erection. They are outright referred to as “male enhancement” medications. A significant portion of cis men who are unable to maintain a erection feel like less of a man. Medications like Viagra and Cialis allow them to feel like a man again. If that’s not affirming one’s gender, I don’t know what is.
Similarly, menopausal hormone treatments are used when someone’s body begins to stop creating estrogens and progestins as cisgender women age. What happens when a body used to those hormones suddenly doesn’t have them anymore? Well, the latent testosterone levels in a cis woman’s body is enough to cause darker and thicker body hair, acne, a change in sex drive, and even thinning hair or balding. Cis women going through menopause don’t feel like women because their hormones have shifted. Again, gender affirming therapy.
The term “gender affirming therapy” doesn’t refer to specifically transgender people’s medications. The medical term therapy refers not only to medication, but also medical procedures and surgeries. If a medical therapy affirms one’s gender (no matter the gender), it’s gender affirming therapy.