How to Use gender-affirming surgery in a Sentence

gender-affirming surgery

noun
  • Twenty years ago, he was asked to film one of the first gender-affirming surgeries in Poland.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 3 Sep. 2023
  • There was huge applause for Gascón, who stars in the film as a drug cartel leader who seeks gender-affirming surgery.
    Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 18 May 2024
  • Gascón stars as a Mexican drug lord who, with the help of a lawyer (Zoe Saldaña), undergoes gender-affirming surgery.
    Jake Coyle, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
  • From there, researchers tracked whether those patients sought a range of gender-affirming surgeries.
    Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The judge, however, allowed the ban on gender-affirming surgeries for youth to take effect.
    Kimberlee Kruesi and Jonathan Mattise, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2023
  • But her doctor told her that the VA excludes gender-affirming surgery from its benefits.
    Jo Yurcaba, NBC News, 25 Jan. 2024
  • In 2015, nearly ten years ago, trans adults in the U.K. seeking gender-affirming surgery reportedly sat on a six-year waiting list.
    Samantha Riedel, Them, 7 Aug. 2024
  • The law also bans gender-affirming surgeries, though that provision is not at issue before the high court.
    Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Kentucky’s ban on gender-affirming surgeries for those under the age of 18 will still go into effect on Thursday.
    Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 29 June 2023
  • But the entire exchange contained no mention of gender-affirming surgery for transgender youth of any age.
    Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 30 May 2024
  • But is Emilia Pérez — a film about a cartel leader who gets gender-affirming surgery and escapes a life of crime — actually good?
    Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The ban would also apply to gender-affirming surgeries.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Some choose to travel to Thailand to pursue gender-affirming surgery, or resort to a gray industry of hormone treatments.
    The Dial, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Musk said his daughter, who came out as trans in 2016, opted to undergo gender-affirming surgery during the pandemic.
    Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 23 July 2024
  • The state recorded no instances of a minor undergoing gender-affirming surgery during that time.
    Sarah Owermohle, STAT, 19 July 2024
  • Trump and DeSantis have decried gender-affirming surgeries for minors as child abuse.
    Steve Peoples, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023
  • For his gender-affirming surgeries, Adler had to comb through online forums or Reddit threads to find information about his doctors or learn more about his surgeries.
    Jack Lancaster, Men's Health, 6 June 2023
  • Bans on gender-affirming surgeries on minors, which weren't happening in Kentucky to begin with, are not being challenged.
    Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 3 May 2023
  • Not even Trump’s staunchest allies could point to evidence of children receiving gender-affirming surgery at school.
    James Factora, Them, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Burton has nothing to say, for instance, about drag culture or gender-affirming surgery, two areas where the idea of self-creation would seem to have more positive implications.
    Rhoda Feng, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2023
  • Such surgeries for trans minors are rare — in fact, one recent study found that the vast majority of gender-affirming surgeries performed on minors are for cisgender boys.
    James Factora, Them, 9 July 2024
  • There is no evidence that a student has ever undergone gender-affirming surgery at a school in the U.S., nor is there evidence that a U.S. school has sent a student to receive such a procedure elsewhere.
    Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 9 Sep. 2024
  • In a memo from July 2011, the agency said Floridians who wished to update their gender markers on their driver’s licenses no longer needed to provide proof of gender-affirming surgery.
    Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • At an event held by a conservative group in late August, Trump claimed that schools are sending children for gender-affirming surgeries without their parents’ knowledge.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2024
  • And days later, Lurie Children’s Hospital confirmed has paused gender-affirming surgeries for patients younger than 19.
    Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
  • One of the breakout new characters in Squid Game season 2 is Hyun-ju, a transgender woman who is a former special forces soldier entering the game to win money to complete her gender-affirming surgery.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Fred Mills cast the deciding vote Wednesday to block a bill that would have banned hormone therapy, puberty blockers, and gender-affirming surgery for transgender minors.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
  • The documentary includes discussions of hate crimes, taboo questions, and the politics of gender-affirming surgery as the pair met various people during their travels.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 3 Oct. 2024
  • As for gender-affirming surgeries for minors, experts say these procedures are extremely rare and are largely viewed as adult procedures.
    Allison Novelo, CBS News, 21 May 2024
  • Of course, gender-affirming surgeries are rarely approved for prisoners and detainees in the U.S. regardless of their immigration status.
    Samantha Riedel, Them, 11 Sep. 2024

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