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Please don’t do this here.

I fail to see how this is gender affirming care

It'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.

I don't understand, is your argument that curing baldness is mostly for trans because it help men get rid of male pattern baldness?

Many 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.

I'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.

Baldness IS a male trait. preventing baldness is about looking attractive, not about "being a man."

But 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.

And among those men notably both the current President of the USA and Donald J Trump

What? I never said that. I was explaining gender affirming care. It's not a trans exclusive thing necessarily.

It's baldness that's associated with gender, not the lack of it.

this is THE definition of it

Male pattern baldness progresses with age, so attempting to prevent it is affirming, if anything, a desire to appear younger than one actually is.

It'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.

Are breast cancer treatments considered gender affirming care in your mind? Do you feel the current (or any) administration is against that?

Can you die of baldness?

https://www.dermatologytimes.com/view/increased-risk-of-suic...

I feel the current administration is against health treatments for all, yes

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