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A Montana lawmaker suggested she’d rather risk her child’s suicide than let her transition
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<blockquote data-quote="RocksInMyHead" data-source="post: 77207138" data-attributes="member: 284142"><p>That would make sense, as the article is not about the law. It's about something that one of the supporters of the law said.</p><p></p><p>How does that follow? "a Montana state lawmaker who sponsored legislation to ban gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors" is a description of Ms. Crowe that tells the reader who she is and puts her comments in context. Her comments are not the text of the law, so the descriptor used for the law has no relationship to her comments. The relevant place to look in order to determine what was being referred to as "gender-affirming care" would be the text of the legislation (helpfully provided in other comments already).</p><p></p><p>Surgical transition is a type of gender-affirming care, but not all gender-affirming care is surgical. "Gender-affirming care" is a broad term that encompasses multiple different treatments, ranging from counseling and therapy to surgical transition (and everything in between). If someone is just talking about surgery, they'll say surgery. If someone is talking about a more abstract situation in which the type of care needed isn't known, or a situation in which multiple types of care are relevant, use of the term "gender-affirming care" simplifies the conversation.</p><p></p><p>It's like if someone talks about "cancer treatment". That could describe many different things - chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, hormone therapy, immunotherapy, stem cell transplant, etc. If the specific type isn't relevant to the conversation, or I'm talking about treatments for cancer in general, then using "cancer treatment" rather than listing off all possible treatments makes sense.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RocksInMyHead, post: 77207138, member: 284142"] That would make sense, as the article is not about the law. It's about something that one of the supporters of the law said. How does that follow? "a Montana state lawmaker who sponsored legislation to ban gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors" is a description of Ms. Crowe that tells the reader who she is and puts her comments in context. Her comments are not the text of the law, so the descriptor used for the law has no relationship to her comments. The relevant place to look in order to determine what was being referred to as "gender-affirming care" would be the text of the legislation (helpfully provided in other comments already). Surgical transition is a type of gender-affirming care, but not all gender-affirming care is surgical. "Gender-affirming care" is a broad term that encompasses multiple different treatments, ranging from counseling and therapy to surgical transition (and everything in between). If someone is just talking about surgery, they'll say surgery. If someone is talking about a more abstract situation in which the type of care needed isn't known, or a situation in which multiple types of care are relevant, use of the term "gender-affirming care" simplifies the conversation. It's like if someone talks about "cancer treatment". That could describe many different things - chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, hormone therapy, immunotherapy, stem cell transplant, etc. If the specific type isn't relevant to the conversation, or I'm talking about treatments for cancer in general, then using "cancer treatment" rather than listing off all possible treatments makes sense. [/QUOTE]
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