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[โ€“] -2 points 5 days ago (3 children)

If you were born a male, you better fuckin' tell the ambulance and the hospital before they treat you!

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 5 days ago* (2 children)

    I think that is most often true. However, there are risks to being outed if you are stealth and those risks could be more significant than the risks of being treated as the gender you present than as the gender you were assigned an birth.

    The treatment of a broken bone is largely independent of the mix of sex hormones, presence or absence of sex-differentiated organs, or gender presentation now or at the moment of birth, but can still involve an ambulance ride and a hospital visit. I'd hope our medical system would be trans-safe enough that disclosure would be a strict positive, but I don't know that's the case, and I would defer to the patient's judgement about whether to disclose or not for whatever reasons (including but not limited to safety and comfort).

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 5 days ago (1 child)

    I'd trust medical folks to be the least risky to out myself to. Made a pact with myself as a young man to never lie or prevaricate to my doctors. OTOH, I'm a middle-aged, white, cis, male, so I can hardly feel it from the viewpoint of a trans person. Also depends on the area. OTOOH, even here in the deepest South I don't see the medical people I've known and dated to hold that sort of prejudice. They just want to fix you and need the best data to do so.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 5 days ago

    Agreed. I know with mandated reporting it's not necessarily super safe to count on doctor-patient confidentiality, but I still try to be honest with all my medical providers and I know I'm more honest with them than with some blood relations. Also, same here as a 46yo, white, cis, male in Arkansas -- most medical people do it out of a sense of community service (it's not like the big bucks come from here) and try to remain non-judgemental.

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