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[–][deleted] 30 insightful - 6 fun30 insightful - 5 fun31 insightful - 6 fun -  (3 children)

This is spot on analysis, thank you!

Yeah imagine you've spent twelve years plus, training in gynecology bc you have a passion for women's health, and then your professional journal telling you Welp, now you have to learn these surgeries that are done on males, relearn male endocrinology, and good god talk about sperm preservation?

Noted this is from 2014 too.

I can add that in my personal experience with TiM patients, they are super creepy. Always wanting to talk about their vaginas, look bruh we are here to talk about your banged up elbow and maybe a flu shot. No woman just sits there randomly talking about her vagina.

[–]MarkTwainiac 27 insightful - 5 fun27 insightful - 4 fun28 insightful - 5 fun -  (2 children)

I wrote a novel back in 2016 in which the protagonist is a longstanding ob-gyn in NYC whose women's health practice gets targeted first by TIM TRAs, then by TIFs. The TIMs demand that the ob-gyn accommodate their male health needs, and that she change her office decor, paperwork and staff so these men feel more "affirmed" and "validated" and "welcomed" for being the real women they claim they are. And of course, they demand she and her staff use their lingo, calling their penises and balls outie vaginas and ovaries, etc. Then the TIFs show up and demand that everything in the practice be made gender-neutral, that their vaginas be referred to as "front holes," and no mention be made of evil words like "mother" and "breasts" when the TIFs are pregnant, giving birth and feeding their infants... The upshot is that she gets publicly vilified as a transphobe and bigot and evil "TERF" and finally folds up her practice.

It actually turned out to be pretty funny, in a horrifying way, but of course it's unpublishable.

[–][deleted] 16 insightful - 2 fun16 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

That's a bit prophetic! I would read it. Wait a couple years and sell it as historical drama.

[–]redditbegay 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Exactly! in 2028, people will wonder why it wasnt put in the historicals section.