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Genre: Education
Date of upload: Nov 11, 2022 ^^
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I'm Canadian. A homosexual Canadian. My roommate, who's a long time friend, suffers horrible, incapacitating pains during her period. She's been asking for a hysterectomy for years, and has consistently been told that it couldn't be done in the off chance she finds a man who want s children: she had never wanted any. It's come to a point where I've offered to marry her so I could tell her doc that I agree to sterilize her. Women are not being listened to, and it's tragic. Truly. Watching the suffering helplessly is really saddening
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a good friend of mine was illegally kicked off of her GP without the written 3 day warning she's legally supposed to get. the reason? she wouldn't leave when they wouldn't fill her perscription, and kept insisting that they Couldn't(they absolutely could). they even threatened to destroy her medical records. all because they didn't want to give her the percription reup for the progesterone she's already approved for and entitled to.
we are looking into legal action :) as will her gender clinic if they actually did destroy the records they need.
the best part? she's not even trans. she's just intersex.
these people are WAY too comfortable lording power and strategic incompitancy over peoples heads. if they don't want to help you then they just fucking won't. and something i don't believe abigail mentioned in her video here: the entire time, you are not allowed to show any outright anger, and they may even go as far as asking you to sign a contract promising you won't cry, whine, or otherwise make a fuss at ALL while in their clinic. i guarantee you that's why she was so hilariously Polite⢠throughout this video. because it's not just while you're in there; if they can find proof of you acting out about them, they can just kick you off.
this system is killing people, and i promise you, they're laughing about it. we NEED to fix this system.
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My white whale was getting my university to stop deadnaming me (even though I legally changed my name partway through the process - they still managed to screw it up). Months of emails and meetings (with everyone from the student-run LGBT outreach to the dean's office) later, they added a tiny little button to the student portal to add a preferred name which would appear everywhere a legal name wasn't required. Even if I leave no other legacy in this world, at least I gave it that button.
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I waited over four years for an ADHD assessment and stupidly told the truth that I had, in fact been abused as a child. It's trauma, he said. I gave him all of my school reports, all of them. It was as clear as day. Trauma he said. ADHD and trauma at the same time, I said? Trauma, he said. Off with you now, he said. I will never be the person I could have been.
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My maternity Doctor (who turned out to be the one who decapitated a baby in Ninewells in Dundee) was really really pushing for a natural birth. I was high risk and terrified. I saw a different doctor one day, a beautiful English black lady, who took one look at my chart and my anxious face, picked up the phone saying, "if you wsnt a c section, we'll get you a section." Bish bash bosh. There were a number of things that could have spelled disaster for me, my son ir us both. Hes 5 now â¤
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Iâm in australia and I told my GP I was non-binary in an appointment for something else. A few months later I asked for a referral for top surgery and she was like âwell, this obviously isnât a new thing for you, sure thing.â And then I saw a plastic surgeon half a year later to get top surgery about a year later. A long wait but he was going on holiday for 2 months and was quite busy. No red tape, they believed me to start with, just a wait because he was very good. I didnât even need to be on testosterone to have it. And my chest looks great.
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I am the mother of a trans man in Canada. Getting him on testosterone when he was 16 was so quick and easy that it actually was a bit concerning to me. Just because it seemed like such a big change. The only criteria was that you identified and lived as that gender for at least 6 months. That's it. Top surgery is also fully covered. I believe bottom surgery is also covered, but there are limited places to get it done, so it would involve travel, but that's it, it's no big deal. Getting his name and gender changed was easy peasy, no doctor required. Nobody has ever given him a hard time about it. All the doctors and schools, when I tell them his pronouns, just respect it and move on, like it's no big deal (because it is no big deal). We're so lucky here.
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im a trans man living in scotland. i went to my gp to be referred to sandyford gender clinic. i was referred in october 2018. it is now april 2023, and i havent had a word. no letter, nothing. i asked to go when i was 14, and i am now almost 19 years old. my puberty is done. it was the wrong one, and i am so, so fucking angry.
my family cannot afford private care. i had to choose between getting top surgery or going to university and having my flat. ive attempted twice, and my gp did not care. all he said was âwe cannot move you on the waiting listâ when i came in on an emergency appointment after my second suicide attempt.
people die on the waiting list. transmascs cannot do DIY without extreme risk. people are DYING. I ALMOST DIED. and the nhs doesnt care enough to save us.
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i am a 19 year old trans man from poland, i didnt go to a doctor for years because i was traumatised because of one, recently i had a first appointment at the clinic and was told they will contact me in 9 months for even the first assesment, i planned to end it before the end of the year but now that there is even a glimmer of hope,
i will hold on.
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Not trans but this is particularly cathartic to rewatch today, as I contemplate trying to get treated for chronic disease in the us as a fat woman. I have been told three times by the same doctor to go on a diet despite already being in the diet before she ever met me. Currently saving a binder full of PDFs for actual treatment to take with me next appt. It's so exhausting and I really feel the pain Abby is in despite the difference in specific issue.
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I havenât seen anyone mention the fact that Ms. Abigail is dressed similarly to Amelia Earhart, which hit me pretty hard. People have found that she survived the crash and even was able to send out messages on a radioâ which were dismissed as false alarms and then only heard by people who could do nothing
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I'm in the US.
My wife was bleeding out slowly, it was like a period that would never end. We didn't know what was going on, just that she was getting weaker and her abdomen was swelling. She wasn't pregnant (we are both female, cis lesbians) and it wasnt making sense. We would take her to the hospital but they would make sure she was stable as required by law and that's it. No tests, no MRIs, just "she's not going to drop dead right now so send her home, it's just dramatic woman stuff"
The state of Tennessee where we lived opened up a healthcare lottery. They literally would announce a phone number to call on the news once in a while and if you were lucky enough to get through, you could have the pleasure of paying hundreds a month for state private insurance. One day, I got through, and she got health care.
Turns out she had a tumor the size of a nerf football on her ovary and it had to be removed immediately. I was so scared she would die. We split up shortly after she got better, but I'll never forget how scared for her life and angry I was at society for allowing this.
Healthcare should be a right, and when we have it, we should all be treated with dignity and taken seriously as any cis white guy would.
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