There are few moments with as pure a feeling of "your doctor does not even remotely understand you" as being a trans woman and getting your periodic reminder from your medical system to get a pap smear
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Incidentally: For trans women this is a very mild frustration which is, if anything, kinda funny. It gets more sinister when I logically extrapolate to realize that if I am getting reminders for pap smear because my gender market says F, somewhere there's a man with a cervix who *isn't* getting them
And if the conclusion is "well, you're a fairly small minority, it would be hard for doctors and doctors' processes to account for you"… that thought kinda makes sense, but if doctors aren't expected to know what's going on with us then why do doctors get to gatekeep what we do with our bodies
yeah, i've been in the "i can't deal with spiro, i'd rather be off med" to "well there's nothing else out there and the document i am reading from says you need it" pipeline lately and it's worse than useless
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System's just busted it seems...