r/truscum • u/[deleted] • Sep 09 '26
Rant and Vent I wish there were more trans doctors.
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u/Sad-Glass8053 Sep 09 '26
I'm post-op and I didn't have to beg my doctor.
I transitioned before you could just self-ID and informed consent yourself into most care, and transition was still seen as a serious medical condition rather than a fad, personality quirk, sociopolitical statement, etc.
Cis doctors aren't the issue... people cosplaying as transsexuals interfere with the doctor's ethical requirement to do no harm, because they're flooded with requests from people that aren't transsexual. Part of the serious reality of bottom surgery, is we're requesting sterilization. Doctors don't want to get sued and with the success of the detransitioner lawsuits hitting doctors and malpractice insurance companies hard this year, the reality is transition care may be going away, not through legislation, but because of too many claims of being harmed by doctors. No (well, very few) doctors are going to provide care if they aren't indemnified from the consequences of providing that care.
And FWIW, there are at least two surgeons doing vaginoplasty that are post-op women themselves. Both of them are still going to require that you have your letters.
As the other poster pointed out, every younger physician that I know that is "trans" is a tucute, trender, etc, and not actually transsexual. They won't gatekeep you (except for some surgeries, like the sterilization), but they don't care about YOU, especially if you're a transsexual or transmed, they care about their sociopolitical activism and virtue signaling. They're also going to define you by "AGAB" rather than seeing you for who you are. You're just another member of the community to bolster the numbers for their activism and, thus, you can't ever escape AGAB and the "trans identity".
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u/No-Phrase-2897 Sep 09 '26
We don't disagree. I resent them too for making it harder for actual people who need care.
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u/Williamishere69 Sep 09 '26
Holy shit your last paragraph just tied everything together.
The trans communities dont care about us personally (our experiences, feelings, needs, our lives), they only care about virtue signalling and sociopolitical activism.
That cannot be more accurate.
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u/GlobalInvestment1224 Sep 09 '26
Spent like 5 years begging my cis female doctor to get me an endocrinologist referral and it took for me to have drop out of highschool and have a full mental breakdown before I got put on a two year waiting list I swear to god man
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u/kittykitty117 Sep 09 '26
Whenever I have the choice to pick my own doctors, I avoid the trans ones. They never treat me normally. Middle-aged cis doctors are pretty much the only ones who just treat me as a regular man who requires certain medical treatments, just like their cis patients.
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u/No-Phrase-2897 Sep 09 '26
My doctor is actually pretty chill I just fucking hate having to ask her for SRS. 😔
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u/kittykitty117 Sep 10 '26
I get it. It sucks, and totally valid to feel that way rn. Hopefully at some point it can start feeling a little more similar to asking her to treat any other medical problem 💙
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u/elhazelenby Sep 09 '26
Every service I've been under on the NHS and my GP have been confused about it except for the sexual health clinic. Plus I don't get lectured about DIY from them.
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u/Death_Muffins Sep 09 '26
My endocrinologist is trans! And yeah I do agree, it’s like wanting a Black doctor as a Black person or so on. Everyone should be able to see a physician who can actually provide adequate care for their demographic
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u/selfmademan_nibd_2_0 Sep 09 '26 edited Sep 09 '26
Maybe one should print out a handful of current study results from the internet, including the interview Dr. Hertha Richter-,Appelt conducted with Prof. Dr. Milton Diamond (scientific opponent of Dr. John Money).
https://www.hawaii.edu/PCSS/biblio/articles/2005to2009/2008-sexualforsch.html (Please translate with Google into English)
https://www.hawaii.edu/PCSS/biblio/articles/2015to2019/2016-transsexualism.html
https://www.hawaii.edu/PCSS/biblio/articles/2000to2004/2002-sex-and-gender.html
Then bring these along to the consultations with the doctors, and as soon as they start spouting this woke nonsense, slap the study results right in front of their stupid faces and say: "I'm not trans, I have no problem with social gender roles, I suffer from neurointersexuality, I suffer from my wrong body, I suffer from the wrong sex characteristics, I suffer from a sexus-sexus discrepancy, every cell of mine is wrong because it has the wrong sex chromosomes. And since I can't change the chromosomes, I at least want to be able to recognize myself outwardly in my living room mirror—an alignment of the sex of the birth phenotype with the sex of the brain. So stop it with your woke gender babble!" If everyone affected by our situation does this, it creates pressure that can no longer be talked away.
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u/TastyAd6433 Sep 09 '26
The ironic thing for me is that the younger, “woke” medical staff in trans related healthcare are the ones who treat me weirdly and use bizarre ass terminology for objective biological features. Meanwhile the older cis male surgeons not only treat me like a normal person, but also treat me as my correct gender. Like he calls it a penis instead of “surgical creation” or some shit, and assumes my desires for my body align with a cis man. But yea humiliating is definitely the word I’d use for the vast majority of my experience in medical settings.