"gender-affirming" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From gender + affirming, \"bringing into conformance with [the person's] gender\".",
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          "word": "gender-affirming surgery"
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          "ref": "2023 May 3, “North Carolina House OKs Ban on Transgender Youth Surgeries”, in U.S. News & World Report:",
          "text": "Transgender youth in North Carolina would have to wait until they turn 18 to receive gender-affirming surgeries under a bill approved Wednesday by the GOP-controlled state House.",
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          "ref": "2023 June 7, “Gender-Affirming Care for Cisgender People”, in Hastings Center Report, →DOI:",
          "text": "We stress that reconstructive breast surgeries and testicular implants are gender-affirming interventions—rather than interventions provided through a generic form of respect for persons—because gender is a morally significant, social category that shapes how individuals regard themselves and understand each other.",
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        "(medicine, especially transgender) Inducing a change in the physical gender characteristics, whether surgically, pharmaceutically, or otherwise, typically of a transgender or intersex person."
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  "word": "gender-affirming"
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