When people say things like hair plugs are gender-affirming care, they’re really showing they don’t get the concept. Gender-affirming care is just that - something that affirms your gender. Male-pattern baldness is a male secondary sex characteristic. Reversing it is anti-gender-affirming care, if anything. Nothing wrong with getting hair plugs if you want, but hair plugs are not gender-affirming care. They’re just cosmetic surgery.
Breast reduction for cis men? That would be gender affirming. Breast enlargement for cis women? Also gender affirming.
If a cis person gets a treatment that reinforces the secondary sex characteristics of their natal sex, then that treatment is gender-affirming care. Not every cosmetic treatment is gender-affirming care.
When people say things like hair plugs are gender-affirming care, they’re really showing they don’t get the concept. Gender-affirming care is just that - something that affirms your gender. Male-pattern baldness is a male secondary sex characteristic. Reversing it is anti-gender-affirming care, if anything. Nothing wrong with getting hair plugs if you want, but hair plugs are not gender-affirming care. They’re just cosmetic surgery.
Breast reduction for cis men? That would be gender affirming. Breast enlargement for cis women? Also gender affirming.
If a cis person gets a treatment that reinforces the secondary sex characteristics of their natal sex, then that treatment is gender-affirming care. Not every cosmetic treatment is gender-affirming care.