gender-affirming care

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“Gender-affirming care can positively impact the mental health of adolescents and young adults (AYA), reducing the risk of depression and suicidality​. Yet it remains a controversial topic, with multiple states placing bans or restrictions on gender-affirming medical care to youth.”

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gender ideology

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“(e)  Agencies shall remove all statements, policies, regulations, forms, communications, or other internal and external messages that promote or otherwise inculcate gender ideology, and shall cease issuing such statements, policies, regulations, forms, communications or other messages.  Agency forms that require an individual’s sex shall list male or female, and shall not request gender identity.  Agencies shall take all necessary steps, as permitted by law, to end the Federal funding of gender ideology.”

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gender identity

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“One’s gender identity can be the same or different from their sex assigned at birth.”

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gender diversity

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“Gender-based violence is often inflicted to deprive survivors not only of their health and dignity, but also of their autonomy..”

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Gender Based Violence

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“Gender-based violence is often inflicted to deprive survivors not only of their health and dignity, but also of their autonomy..”

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gender based

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“Harmful gender norms – especially those related to rigid notions of masculinity – can also affect boys and men’s health and wellbeing negatively. For example, specific notions of masculinity may encourage boys and men to smoke, take sexual and other health risks, misuse alcohol and not seek help or health care. Such gender norms also contribute to boys and men perpetrating violence – as well as being subjected to violence themselves. They can also have grave implications for their mental health. ”

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gender

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“It is possible to define gender as interchangeable with “sex,” indicating that the term can be used when differentiating male creatures from female ones biologically. However, the concept of gender, a word primarily applied to human beings, has additional connotations having to do with general behavior, social interactions, and most importantly, one’s fundamental sense of self . . . ”

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