I was browsing research papers on the topic of gender affirment surgeries when I noticed a variation in their naming.
In particular, they are usually described as sex reassignment surgeries in papers pre 2010 but the phrase gradually evolves to gender affirment surgeries post 2010.
I honestly dislike this phrase as much as I dislike 'assigned male/female at birth'. In particular, gender affirment makes it sound like it's just a last step of becoming the gender you have chosen, much like how assigned makes determining the sex of a baby seem arbitrary and up to interpretation.
There's also the matter of substituting 'gender' for 'sex' in that phrase, which is just confusing. If gender is just in your head as is claimed nowadays, why is there a surgery to affirm it? Sex reassignment surgery is not that great of a name either since sex cannot actually be reassigned, but I feel this is even worse somehow.
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