I didn’t do all my annual medical exams last year because of COVID, so am now scheduling them. Since, at the moment, I’m in a different area from my usual doctors, I have to see new doctors.
This area is much more conservative than my usual area, but the last time I got new doctors in that very liberal area, in 2016, none of them seemed to be confused about biological sex.
In Taking A Stand I, I talked about what happened at my new gynecologist.
Well, I was trying to make an appointment with a GP for an annual physical, and the scheduler, after asking me the usual questions (insurance, birthdate) finally asked, rather crabbily, “What is the legal gender on your birth certificate?”
I blurted out, “What?!?!?”
Then I realize that this was some kind of awkward way for the doctor to attempt to figure out what biological sex her new patient is before the appointment, and / or any other kind of gender fuckery her new patient has going on - like if your name is Susan but you were born male.
But the doctor obviously does not realize that in most US states you can now change your birth certificate to match your imaginary gender, so there’s no point in asking this question to begin with.
In any case, I said to the scheduler something along the lines of, “Biological sex is determined at conception and is immutable. I am a female; I was a female at birth and that will not change no matter what my birth certificate is changed to say.”
I’m not sure I’m going to this doctor given this bullshit. Or I’ll go and make sure to give her an earful.
And, BTW, I do all this talking while the doctor is examining me, so I’m not taking additional time.
Before COVID, I engaged with my eye doctor, in the extremely liberal area, on this issue, and she was very receptive, saying that she’d noticed a sharp rise in kids claiming different genders and also noticed that their parents tended to be very involved in their kids’ gender specialness.
As a mother of daughters herself, my eye doctor was genuinely concerned when I told her what was happening to girls especially.
So again, I’m going to continue to plant the GC seeds everywhere I go and hope that any of you who are comfortable doing so do so.
Most people don’t know, or are only beginning to suspect what’s happening, but in the US with the Equality Act looming, and similar sinister legislation already passed at the state/ local level, we have to tell them before we run out of time to save ourselves and our girls.
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