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[–]msteacherlady 17 insightful - 3 fun17 insightful - 2 fun18 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Mini peak. Maybe four years ago my ears perked up at an NPR interview - a female physician talking about essentially the same topic regarding medicine and mental health. After the break they took callers. What must have been a TiM caught the guest off guard when he castigated her for not including transwomen. I was incensed! No one is obligated to include any particular thing in their research or interest.The very topic was about how women are wrongly served by the medical community because of our lack of representation in research data. Trans people could claim the same thing due to the stupid cocktail of hormones they willingly take causing strange yet-to-be-researched interactions with other medications, but it reads like "let's continue to ignore women."

Back then this whole trans thing was barely on my radar, but I was livid.

[–]VioletRemi 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I actually almost died to this thing. I have pretty poor health, and I have heart attacks every 1.5~2 years. And once I was in different city, and there happened attack. Doctor was young doctor, and he was trying to do things he usually do, but they were not helping, and he was not sure why. Good that I was not alone there and my friend insisted on getting doctor from other clinic as fast as possible. And that other doctor actually helped me. And it is all because heart and veins are placed a bit differently, body is a bit different, and hormones (like progesterone, which transwomen are not taking) have influence on how heart attacks are different in women bodies. And that young doctor was only managing men before, and in university he was only studying on male patients, so he did not knew about differences at all. And it was eye openner to him. I hope he became more capable specialist after that and learned differences in sexes biology.

So this transwomen cry about "why book is not about us too?" is disgusting and can cost lifes. Why they even bother, their male body is already very studied, and if I was transwoman - that young doctor would cure me no time, because "estrogen pills" are not changing any physiology at all, only growing some extra fats around their body. Their habbits are still staying men habbits as well. So book is in no way about them or should touch them at all. It is same as trasnwomen will come to nuclear physicist and ask them to study carbon chemistry too, or they are transphobic.

[–]msteacherlady 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I am so glad you made it through that and I am so tired, and also scared for myself and other women, that these kind of stories are all too common. Everywhere you look there's situations where women are expected to be the accommodating ones, wether it's our health needs, to prison housing, to bathrooms. Men do not have to give up anything while women are tacitly supposed to give up our spaces and needs.