#genderaffirming — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #genderaffirming, aggregated by home.social.
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A Map of Gender-Diverse Cultures
This text and the language in the corresponding map was updated in consultation with a world gender expert in October, 2023.
"Throughout recorded history and since time immemorial, thriving cultures have recognized, revered, and integrated more than two genders. Terms such as #transgender, gay, or bisexual are Western constructs that often assume three things: that there are only two sexes (male/female), as many as three sexualities (gay/straight/bisexual), and only two #genders (man/woman).
"Even after the end of the modern era and as the #colonial period wanes, hundreds of distinct #Indigenous societies around the globe still retain their own long-established traditions for third, fourth, fifth, or more genders. The subject of #TwoSpirits, Fred Martinez, for example, was not a boy who wanted to be a girl, but both a boy and a girl — an identity his Navajo culture recognized and revered as #nádleehí. Meanwhile, Hina of Kumu Hina is part of a #NativeHawaiian culture that has traditionally revered and respected #mahu, those who embody both male and female spirit. It’s not uncommon for third gender people to perform critical spiritual and religious functions in their communities.
"Among many Indigenous societies, two prominent features often distinguish the lives and social roles of third gender persons from those of cisgender persons or contemporary transgender persons in non-Indigenous societies. The first is that many Indigenous terms for third gender people contain both the word for 'man' and 'woman' in their construction, and that #ThirdGender people are seen as embodying both of those genders in diverse ways. The second is that the history of many third genders is in the community role of religious specialists, which also takes diverse forms, depending on the beliefs of diverse cultures. While not all third gender persons are defined in these terms, across our species, this phenomenon of the third gender religious specialist, healer, or spiritual worker has been part of our #CollectiveIdentity and human experience since time immemorial.
"Since the beginning of the 21st century, we’ve seen tremendous expansion of the role that transgender, #GenderDiverse, and third gender people have in society, following the tenuous establishment of civil rights for #gay and #lesbian people in many nations and increased access to #genderaffirming care in the transgender community. Many Indigenous transgender people who also identify as third gender are familiar to large audiences via their participation in popular media or social media activism. Third gender people, like the Japanese-Samoan, #Faafafine artist Yuki Kihara, now participate in major global cultural events and function not just as representatives of their gender-based community, but of their nation. Kihara had both a solo exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and represented New Zealand at the 2021 Venice Biennale. [For more: '#LGBTQIA+ Pride and Two-Spirit People' in Smithsonian Voices.]
"In the 21st century, many third gender people choose to take advantage of #GenderAffirmingCare, and identify, in addition to being third gender, as transgender. As access to gender-affirming care parallels healthcare access, and both third gender and Indigenous persons are often marginalized economically, it is not as readily available to many Indigenous transgender people, and within Indigenous cultures, medical transition is often seen as separate or secondary to social transition.
"Within #Western societies, despite centuries of suppression, there are still traces of a past when third or fourth or more genders were recognized within many cultures and societies. In rare cases, they presently exist. An example of this would be the #burrnesha of Albania, women who give up their social role as women to live as men. Likewise, within Jewish culture and law, as many as eight genders have been historically recognized, and in diverse ways.
"Take a tour with this world map, and learn how many cultures see gender diversity."
Learn more:
https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/content/two-spirits_map-html/#PBS #GenderDiversity #CulturalTraditions #Genders #ThreeGenders #ThirdGender #FiveGenders #Gender #GBLTQ #Genders
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#HHS Proposes Rules to Bar #Hospitals from Performing #GenderAffirmingCare to #Minors
The Department of #Health and #HumanServices today published in the Federal Register two Releases proposing rule changes that would effectively ban almost all #US. hospitals from providing #pharmaceutical or surgical #genderaffirming care to children and #adolescents under 18 years of age.
https://religionclause.blogspot.com/2025/12/hhs-proposes-rules-to-bar-hospitals.html
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#Landmark 11th Circuit Decision in May affirmed illegality of discrimination against #LGBTQ #workers in #Georgia case. #Court refused to allow #Sheriff's Dept to make special exception and violate #FederalLaw to ban #EmployeeRights to #GenderAffirming care. Case dated back to 2019 lawsuit and is looked at in detail here
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New #initiative to expand #genderaffirming #Healthcare across #Illinois.
The #Illinois #Department of #HumanServices announced Monday that the new #Transgender and #GenderDiverse #Wellness and #Equity #Program will provide organizations with #comprehensive and #edical care for #transgender, #genderdiverse and #LGBTQ+ #people.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Illinois #Health #Healthcare #Progress #Allies
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#Trans #healthcare is still totally #legal in #Kansas thanks to this #epic #vetooverride #fail
In a dramatic shift, the #Kansas #legislature failed to #override #Governor #LauraKelly’s #veto of a #bill #banning #genderaffirming #healthcare for #transgender #minors.
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#Kansas poised to become 25th #Fascist #state to #ban #genderaffirming #Healthcare for #minors.
The #Gerrymandered #statelegislature is expected to #override a #veto by #Democratic #Governor #LauraKelly.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Kansas #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
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#Maryland #lawmakers seek to #bolster #protections for #genderaffirming #Healthcare.
Maryland lawmakers are seeking to #prohibit the #state from participating in #criminal #investigations and #lawsuits that other states may bring against #healthcare #professionals who provide #genderaffirmingcare and #transgender #patients who #travel to the state to #receive it.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Maryland #Politics #DemocraticParty #Allies #Representation #Culture
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#WorldHealthOrganization Wades Into #Transgender #Debate and Is Met With #Transphobic #Uproar Over Plans To Develop #Guidelines on #Trans #Healthcare
— #SEGM is an #AntiTrans #Catholic #Hategroup. #Detransitioning after #genderaffirming #healthcare is extremely rare. Most #detransitioners #detransition as the result of #discrimination, Many later resume their #transition.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Healthcare #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Transphobia
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Why #Alberta’s new #antitrans #policies could be #Canada’s #harshest yet.
Examining #Conservative #Premier #DanielleSmith's new #antitrans #policies restricting #GenderAffirming Healthcare, #pronoun use in #schools and more
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Canada #Education #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia
https://xtramagazine.com/video/alberta-canadas-harshest-anti-trans-bill-262429
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#ElliotPage asks #SupremeCourt to #hear #challenge to #Tennessee's #transgender #HealthCare #ban.
Page and 56 other #transgender #adults, including #actress #NicoleMaines and #Matrix co-director #LillyWachowski, signed their names on a #brief filed with the nation's highest court Dec. 4 describing how their #lives have #improved by #accessing #genderaffirming #Healthcare.
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We must be #advocates for the #genderaffirming #Healthcare
#People deserve to tell their #stories, but it shouldn’t #threaten other people’s access to #MedicallyNecessary #GenderAffirming #healthcare.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Transitioning #Detransitioning #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Transphobia
https://dailyiowan.com/2023/10/16/editorial-we-must-be-advocates-for-gender-affirming-care/
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#Trans #activists launch #campaign to #demand #access to #genderaffirming #healthcare in #ireland
A #coalition of grassroots trans community groups have started a campaign demanding the #NationalGenderServices (NGS) #support #trans #patients #accessing #healthcare through their #GPs.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Ireland #Transitioning #Health #Healthcare
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The #AmericanMedicalAssociation Has Strengthened Its #Stance on #GenderAffirming #Health Care in a new #resolution by the #organization that pledges to oppose #criminalpenalties for #providing or #accessing such care.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.them.us/story/american-medical-association-resolution-gender-affirming-healthcare
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#KansasCity declares itself an #LGBTQ #sanctuarycity
The move comes a day after #Hateful #Republican #statelawmakers in #Missouri voted to #ban #MedicallyNecessary #GenderAffirming #Healthcare for #transgender #minors and restrict it for some #trans #minors
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #Missouri #Allies #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #EmptyThePews #ThePartyOfHate
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#Missouri’s ‘terrifying’ #rule on #genderaffirming #Healthcare will #force ‘mass medical #detransitioning
#PROMO, Missouri’s LGBTQ+ #publicpolicy and #advocacy organisation, said by issuing the #emergencyrule Bailey “fanned the flames of #hate” and put #trans people at the centre of his “#culturewar”.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/25/missouri-trans-healthcare-adults-andrew-bailey/
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My piece today in FastCo with #UJCSexWorkers lays out some pro #police thinking that's been bugging me for a while.
Whether you're watching their $$ or their bodies, it's not OK to #surveil #abortion patients, families seeking #genderaffirming care, or #SWers #surveillance #democrats #digitalrights #transrights #SexWork