Gender-affirming care, which includes a wide range of social and medical interventions, is being expanded in Oregon to include things like facial hair removal and Adam's apple reduction surgery. This is part of a wave of legislation this year in Democratic-led states intended to carve out safe havens amid a conservative movement that seeks to ban or limit gender-affirming care elsewhere, eliminate some rights and protections for transgender people and even bar discussion of their existence in settings such as classrooms.

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