First, it started with people saying cis women getting breast implants was gender-affirming surgery and at least that kinda made sense on the very surface level. Now people are claiming all plastic surgeries are gender-affirming which made me check whether this was some orchestrated trolling effort. Doesn't seem like it.

Here's the tweet .

  • Anemasta [any]
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    2 years ago

    It is almost like beauty standards and gender are intertwined in our culture.

    This seems like an obviously true statement, but I can't really grasp what you specifically mean by that.

    • MeatfuckerDidNothing [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      People can do things because of gender dsyphoria, and gender dsyphoria can be created by culturally enforced gender standards, of which beauty standards are a part