Opinion: Gender-affirming care has a long history, though anti-trans laws pretend it's 'untested' (via latimesopinion)
. When I began hormone replacement therapy, I, like many Americans wasn’t aware this treatment had been around for generations. What I was even more surprised to learn was that hormone therapy is often prescribed to cisgender women — women who were assigned female at birth and raised their whole lives as women.
For over half a century, legal and medical authorities in the U.S. have also approved and administered surgeries and hormone therapies to force the bodies of intersex children to conform to binary gender stereotypes. I myself had genital surgery in infancy to bring my anatomy into alignment with expectations for what a “male” body should look like. In most cases, intersex surgeries are
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