re: "Gender affirming healthcare"

It's "sex change surgery." Sex is biological and hard to change (impossible, at the chromosomal level). Gender is a social and mental construct that is fluid and can and does change. And that's *their* argument. At the root of all this is the insane idea that you can and should change biological identity to accommodate a fluid (and in almost all cases pathological) sense of psychological identity.

I would be better not to say "gender affirming," even when quoting headlines or comments.