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VA ends gender-affirming care
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When people say things like hair plugs are gender-affirming care, they're really showing they don't get the concept. Gender-affirming care is just that - something that affirms your gender. Male-pattern baldness is a male secondary sex characteristic. Reversing it is anti-gender-affirming care, if anything. Nothing wrong with getting hair plugs if you want, but hair plugs are not gender-affirming care. They're just cosmetic surgery.
Breast reduction for cis men? That would be gender affirming. Breast enlargement for cis women? Also gender affirming.
If a cis person gets a treatment that reinforces the secondary sex characteristics of their natal sex, then that treatment is gender-affirming care. Not every cosmetic treatment is gender-affirming care.
It's just anecdotal evidence, but I've met (cis) men who said their male pattern baldness makes them feel less masculine. In that case, hair transplants would be gender affirming care.
It's not only about sex characteristics, it's also about (perceived) societal expectations and norms.