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
• Getting gender-affirming surgery in China or Thailand is expensive, and out of reach for many people who have to save up to be able to afford it.
  — The Dial, 6 Feb. 2025
• But nobody is doing top surgery or bottom surgery, or any sort of gender-affirming surgeries on ten-year-olds, on children.
  — Spencer MacNaughton, Them, 1 Feb. 2025
• 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
• In the thriller musical, the 52-year-old actress plays a Mexican drug cartel leader who fakes her death and undergoes gender-affirming surgery.
  — Vivian Kwarm, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2025
• Now at 17, Cameron has undergone gender-affirming surgery and is taking testosterone.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2025
• 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
• Saldaña plays Rita Mora Castro, a lawyer who helps the title character, a trans cartel boss, undergo gender-affirming surgery and start a new life as a woman.
  — Chloee Weiner, NPR, 2 Mar. 2025
• 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
• The directive protected access to treatments like hormone therapy and pre- and post-operative care for gender-affirming surgery.
  — Joseph Choi, The Hill, 17 Mar. 2025