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LGBTQIA+ 20h
We need more trans physicians because it’s genuinely crazy how clueless so many doctors (even those who routinely work with lgbt and trans patients) are when interacting with us
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Anonymous 20h

Reason a bitch is in med school even if my cohort hates it

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Anonymous 16h

It’s always so weird seeing a new practitioner and they’re so clueless and unaware about any of the medical impacts of transitioning

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Anonymous 11h

Adding to that- we need more openly lgbt+ teachers and stop seeing it as “too much” for kids to handle, or inappropriate. If it’s so inappropriate to discuss these things, straight teachers shouldn’t mention their partners either.

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Anonymous 16h

Yeah but systemic barriers are a thing so :/

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Anonymous 12h

As a medical professional, I had one of my coworkers who is a PA, ask us all what pronouns our patients are and tried to see in the chart, ONLY bc she saw they were lesbians……….. it pissed me off at first how she would only check the pronouns bc they were lesbians, as if being gay means you’re trans too? Idk. It didn’t vibe right with me. But then I realized that she actually TRIED and that’s more than most Drsand PAs ever do… but I still think it’s hilarious and kinda wholesomely ignorant.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 12h

So just know a lot of them who are straight and cis are out here really trying and learning and getting better. There is also a lot of lgbt doctors and medical professionals of all kinds presently. It’s still a big problem (I get asked about pregnancy even tho I’m a gold star lesbian and they don’t know how to respond and either do I at times the way they word things and have been forced to take pregnancy tests before and made to wait 30 days before starting accutane…) BUT I thought it would be

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 12h

A bit of hopeful and happy information that things are getting better. It will take time before the lgbt educated providers get done with school and through their early stages of career so I see things getting dramatically better once they all start getting into those upper level positions all at once

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 12h

Scholarships might help! @rich people

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11h

Same 🫶 literally just today I got misgendered by my attending and had a patient tell me my voice was fucked up 😭

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 26m

So true. when you say kids, what age group are you talking about?

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