How to Use gender-affirming surgery in a Sentence

gender-affirming surgery

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• Twenty years ago, he was asked to film one of the first gender-affirming surgeries in Poland.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 3 Sep. 2023
• There was huge applause for Gascón, who stars in the film as a drug cartel leader who seeks gender-affirming surgery.
  — Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 18 May 2024
• From there, researchers tracked whether those patients sought a range of gender-affirming surgeries.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023
• The judge, however, allowed the ban on gender-affirming surgeries for youth to take effect.
  — Kimberlee Kruesi and Jonathan Mattise, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2023
• But her doctor told her that the VA excludes gender-affirming surgery from its benefits.
  — Jo Yurcaba, NBC News, 25 Jan. 2024
• In 2015, nearly ten years ago, trans adults in the U.K. seeking gender-affirming surgery reportedly sat on a six-year waiting list.
  — Samantha Riedel, Them, 7 Aug. 2024
• Kentucky’s ban on gender-affirming surgeries for those under the age of 18 will still go into effect on Thursday.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 29 June 2023
• Musk said his daughter, who came out as trans in 2016, opted to undergo gender-affirming surgery during the pandemic.
  — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 23 July 2024
• The state recorded no instances of a minor undergoing gender-affirming surgery during that time.
  — Sarah Owermohle, STAT, 19 July 2024
• Trump and DeSantis have decried gender-affirming surgeries for minors as child abuse.
  — Steve Peoples, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023
• For his gender-affirming surgeries, Adler had to comb through online forums or Reddit threads to find information about his doctors or learn more about his surgeries.
  — Jack Lancaster, Men's Health, 6 June 2023
• Bans on gender-affirming surgeries on minors, which weren't happening in Kentucky to begin with, are not being challenged.
  — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 3 May 2023
• Not even Trump’s staunchest allies could point to evidence of children receiving gender-affirming surgery at school.
  — James Factora, Them, 9 Sep. 2024
• Burton has nothing to say, for instance, about drag culture or gender-affirming surgery, two areas where the idea of self-creation would seem to have more positive implications.
  — Rhoda Feng, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2023
• Such surgeries for trans minors are rare — in fact, one recent study found that the vast majority of gender-affirming surgeries performed on minors are for cisgender boys.
  — James Factora, Them, 9 July 2024
• There is no evidence that a student has ever undergone gender-affirming surgery at a school in the U.S., nor is there evidence that a U.S. school has sent a student to receive such a procedure elsewhere.
  — Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 9 Sep. 2024
• In a memo from July 2011, the agency said Floridians who wished to update their gender markers on their driver’s licenses no longer needed to provide proof of gender-affirming surgery.
  — Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 31 Jan. 2024
• At an event held by a conservative group in late August, Trump claimed that schools are sending children for gender-affirming surgeries without their parents’ knowledge.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2024
• Fred Mills cast the deciding vote Wednesday to block a bill that would have banned hormone therapy, puberty blockers, and gender-affirming surgery for transgender minors.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
• As for gender-affirming surgeries for minors, experts say these procedures are extremely rare and are largely viewed as adult procedures.
  — Allison Novelo, CBS News, 21 May 2024
• Taking puberty blockers could also prevent the need for future gender-affirming surgeries, Forcier said — such as if a child assigned female at birth takes blockers, preventing the growth of breasts.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
• The provisions of the law banning gender-affirming surgeries for minors in Indiana will have no immediate impact.
  — Tom Davies, Anchorage Daily News, 17 June 2023
• Yet the Vatican reaffirmed its opposition to gender-affirming surgeries in April.
  — Susan Miller, USA TODAY, 28 June 2024
• Earlier this month, the group posted a manipulated video depicting a Times Square billboard that linked Harris to gender-affirming surgeries.
  — Ali Swenson, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2024
• Many public attacks on, and attempts to restrict, gender-affirming surgery focus on the possibility that people may regret having the procedures done.
  — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 23 Aug. 2023
• One of them requested emails from school employees and 20 physicians and clinicians, most of whom are affiliated with Johns Hopkins Medicine and provide gender-affirming surgery and medical care.
  — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 8 Apr. 2024
• Patients under 21 would have been required to receive at least six months of counseling before starting hormone treatment or receiving gender-affirming surgery.
  — CBS News, 8 Feb. 2024
• Hobbs signed that order on June 27 alongside another that requires insurance plans for state employees to cover gender-affirming surgeries.
  — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 7 July 2023
• Others noted that during her time as California attorney general, Harris worked to block a trans woman from receiving gender-affirming surgery in prison in 2015.
  — Jo Yurcaba, NBC News, 23 July 2024
• Of course, gender-affirming surgeries are rarely approved for prisoners and detainees in the U.S. regardless of their immigration status.
  — Samantha Riedel, Them, 11 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024