Don't Call It “Sex Change” — It's Now “Gender Confirmation”
The strange and bubbling caldron of PC and cultural terminology has taken a bizarre new turn with the news that what was once called “sex change” and then “gender re-assignment” surgery is now increasingly being referred to in “transgender” circles as “gender confirmation.”
The term “gender confirmation” appears to have been coined way back in 2012 by a surgeon who, by that time, had already been performing various and sundry gender procedures for nearly a dozen years. In an article published by the online Huffington Post, Chicago-based plastic surgeon Loren S. Schechter, wrote: “For more than 11 years, I have performed gender confirmation surgery as part of my surgical practice.”
He explained that “I call it ‘gender confirmation surgery’ because I believe that out of the myriad labels I’ve heard for the procedure — ‘sex reassignment surgery,’ ‘gender reassignment surgery,’ and ‘sex change...
