Choosing who you are

[I_am_not_mafia]

And female hormones reduce the size of the prostate over time. Prostate cancer in trans women is extremely rare as a result. It is not as simple as just putting male or female on a medical form. For example, the NHS do not put trans women on progesterone and this can cause problems that cisgendered people do not have. Trans people can need care specific to being trans, but for the most part their bodies should be treated as the same as their lived gender.

[Shell B]

For the most part, so it sounds like maybe doctors need their gender history to safely treat them, for the whole part. Here, a doctor would have your complete medical history anyway.

[Jello]

And female hormones reduce the size of the prostate over time. Prostate cancer in trans women is extremely rare as a result. It is not as simple as just putting male or female on a medical form. For example, the NHS do not put trans women on progesterone and this can cause problems that cisgendered people do not have. Trans people can need care specific to being trans, but for the most part their bodies should be treated as the same as their lived gender.

I agree on that. What i'm trying to say is that you have to list that you're trans, at the very least, so that way your doctors can handle any issues that present themselves, correctly. Again, boy do i wish we had this magical switch so that people could be whoever they want, because i'm sure thousands upon thousands of people would be far happier. 

For the most part, so it sounds like maybe doctors need their gender history to safely treat them, for the whole part. Here, a doctor would have your complete medical history anyway.

I've been through 6 different doctors in my life so far, and i'm not even 20, and at least 3 of them have clearly not read my medical history in the slightest.

[arewethereyet]

I had both breasts removed because of a breast cancer diagnosis in 2009. A couple years later my regular doc hired a new nurse. After about the tenth time she asked me when I had my last mammogram I raised hell with them. No, medical personnel do not always make appropriate notes or read the ones that are there. I don't have an issue having letting a doctor and staff that I am seeing for the first time know that my body has been surgically altered but I do think there could/should be a way to flag records to draw attention to things so that they aren't going on assumption.

[SlowCalculations]

meanwhile on a support chat i'm trying to help people not kill themselves everyday. This is not debatable this is human lives.

[arewethereyet]

meanwhile on a support chat i'm trying to help people not kill themselves everyday. This is not debatable this is human lives.

Good on you for doing that...and good on you for being able to do that.  It's like hospice people...takes a special breed of which I am not.

[no one]

Arewethereyet:
I had both breasts removed because of a breast cancer diagnosis in 2009. A couple years later my regular doc hired a new nurse. After about the tenth time she asked me when I had my last mammogram I raised hell with them. No, medical personnel do not always make appropriate notes or read the ones that are there. I don't have an issue having letting a doctor and staff that I am seeing for the first time know that my body has been surgically altered but I do think there could/should be a way to flag records to draw attention to things so that they aren't going on assumption.

I am sorry to hear this. Some people are genuinely stupid. Sometimes, people are so accustomed to procedure that sound judgment takes the back seat. Now for the same nurse to ask the same question ten times is a new level of stupidity, not to mention imperceptive asshattery.

[arewethereyet]

Arewethereyet:
I had both breasts removed because of a breast cancer diagnosis in 2009. A couple years later my regular doc hired a new nurse. After about the tenth time she asked me when I had my last mammogram I raised hell with them. No, medical personnel do not always make appropriate notes or read the ones that are there. I don't have an issue having letting a doctor and staff that I am seeing for the first time know that my body has been surgically altered but I do think there could/should be a way to flag records to draw attention to things so that they aren't going on assumption.

I am sorry to hear this. Some people are genuinely stupid. Sometimes, people are so accustomed to procedure that sound judgment takes the back seat. Now for the same nurse to ask the same question ten times is a new level of stupidity, not to mention imperceptive asshattery.

I am not as sensitive about it as I used to be. And thank you.

[no one]

Again, I am sorry you had to live through that ordeal. I am also happy you had the resolve to persevere. Not everyone has the strength or courage.

[SenseMaker007]

Nobody chooses who they are, that's the whole point of identity, and this applies whether you're trans, cis, genderfluid, agender or bigender.