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    la scapigliata‏ @lascapigliata8 24 Feb 2018

    I often hear trans activists claim that they are so special, the entire field medicine "knows nothing about them" and on that account they dismiss all medical opinion that doesn't validate their demands. As a doctor, I disagree.

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      2. la scapigliata‏ @lascapigliata8 24 Feb 2018

        Humans are largely the same, medically speaking. There are some more or less obvious and important differences in anatomy and physiology of individuals. Sometimes a large group of individuals can be recognised based on those differences, other times differences are individual.

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      3. la scapigliata‏ @lascapigliata8 24 Feb 2018

        Say your heart points to the wrong side of your chest (dextrocardia) - rare but important. Or ulnar nerve runs in the wrong position - rare and not very important unless you throw a ball a lot. Or your body becomes resistant to insulin (diabetes) - common and very important.

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      4. la scapigliata‏ @lascapigliata8 24 Feb 2018

        Sometimes 99% of humans can be divided into two groups based on one important difference, for example whether they contribute to reproduction by producing ova (women) or sperm (men). This function is like any other important function, like producing insulin to manage blood sugar.

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      5. la scapigliata‏ @lascapigliata8 24 Feb 2018

        The fact something went wrong in an individual human so they don't produce gametes, for example, is analogous with someone's pancreatic cells failing to produce insulin. These are abnormalities, and medicine studies them in order to help, if possible.

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      6. la scapigliata‏ @lascapigliata8 24 Feb 2018

        Abnormalities aren't "variations of normal" because they prevent or limit normal function. Diabetics don't have "alternative yet normal metabolisms", nor can they think their way into managing glucose without insulin. Some abnormalities interfere with life more than others.

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      7. la scapigliata‏ @lascapigliata8 24 Feb 2018

        For example, not being able to concieve a child isn't life threatening to anyone other than that potential child, whose existance isn't assured anyway due to incredible complexity of conception, gene combination and development. Which doesn't mean people won't be upset about it.

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      8. la scapigliata‏ @lascapigliata8 24 Feb 2018

        I like to think about body and mind as a continuum, except body can exist without the mind but so far, it's not possible for it to be the other way around. Literally everything that happens to our body registers in the mind somehow, whether we are aware of it at the time or not.

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      9. la scapigliata‏ @lascapigliata8 24 Feb 2018

        This is why I love psychiatry, we focus on the mind while being mindful of the body, while a lot of traditional medicine and especially surgery focuses almost myopically on the body alone. "Refer to psych" is the throwaway comment often applied to difficult patients.

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      10. la scapigliata‏ @lascapigliata8 24 Feb 2018

        Some of the most notoriously difficult patients from a doctor's PoV are those who are paranoid or deluded or have personality disorders, all of which can not only make their medical problem worse, they can create the problem, or an appearance of it.

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      11. la scapigliata‏ @lascapigliata8 24 Feb 2018

        Depression is sometimes reported as a headache, a delusion as desperate need to amputate body parts, a hallucination as repeated attempts to remove alien micro chip from one's abdomen, anxiety as hypochondria, panic attack as heart attack.

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      12. la scapigliata‏ @lascapigliata8 24 Feb 2018

        Medical doctors naturally pursue physical diagnosis at first, but at some point it becomes clear it's psychological. If they are seeing these people over time, they can start to feel "heart-sink" because of patient's distress and their inability to help them.

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      13. la scapigliata‏ @lascapigliata8 24 Feb 2018

        What a lot of people don't know is that most doctors are terrible optimists. We are reluctant to give bad prognosis or simply give up. This is why we keep referring these patients to each other, hoping the expert in a different field of medicine might have a cure. Often they do.

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      14. la scapigliata‏ @lascapigliata8 24 Feb 2018

        But when they don't the patients inevitably end up being psychiatry's problem. And that's ok, that's what we're here for, it's why we are trained as doctors first, so we can keep looking after the mind, while remaining mindful of the body.

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      15. la scapigliata‏ @lascapigliata8 24 Feb 2018

        It's not rare for a psychiatrist diagnose a medical illness, especially if it's rare and the patient hasn't been to too many other specialists. For medicine to work like this, there have to be many more similarities between individuals who present with symptoms, than differences.

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      16. la scapigliata‏ @lascapigliata8 24 Feb 2018

        We don't learn many unique medicines. I don't swap between huge bodies of knowledge depending on whether a man or a woman or a trans person walks through the door. Learning myriad small, more or less important ways our bodies can be different IS medicine.

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      17. la scapigliata‏ @lascapigliata8 24 Feb 2018

        Sometimes tiny differences can be incompatible with life. Often much bigger ones, like a limb missing, can be managed a lot more easily. What you see isn't always what you get. Ideas and treatments change, but bodies have been the same for millions of years.

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      18. la scapigliata‏ @lascapigliata8 24 Feb 2018

        Doctors and vets speak about mammals with comparable knowledge, his is how much all mammalian bodies resemble each other, let alone within the same species. In fact, vets are incredible, they have to learn so much more, although their patients don't have the same expectations 🤗

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      19. la scapigliata‏ @lascapigliata8 24 Feb 2018

        Human medicine is often about managing expectations, and this is where approch that larely ignores the mind, met with unwarranted optimism, can struggle. Transgender surgery, for example. I heard many surgeons say that they "construct genitals".

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      20. la scapigliata‏ @lascapigliata8 24 Feb 2018

        Truth is, they'd fail an exam in med school if they claimed that surgical cavity is the same as embryonologically developed vagina. That artificially created phallus that has to be inflated through a pump and lacks urethra is the same as penis. And yet they say it all the time.

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      21. la scapigliata‏ @lascapigliata8 24 Feb 2018

        They also claim that they are changing people's sex, knowing that they aren't making men capable of producing ova, and vice versa. They say it because they are enamoured with their own skills, a bit narcissistic, and they genuinely want to help their patients.

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      22. la scapigliata‏ @lascapigliata8 24 Feb 2018

        Even most blunt and practical doctors are very emphatic, and sometmes this manifests in downplaying negative outcomes, and saying things in a way that won't upset the patients. They don't like confrontation and have an irrational belief that all will be well.

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      23. la scapigliata‏ @lascapigliata8 24 Feb 2018

        When things go wrong, they tend to blame, hide or refer elsewhere. This is broadly speaking how it came 2 b that healthy bodies are mutilated medically in order to cure feelings, and how the evidence that outcomes don't justify the risks didn't stop the practice, it expanded it.

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      24. la scapigliata‏ @lascapigliata8 24 Feb 2018

        To children. "If we could only get to them young enough, the outcomes would be better" they say, swayed by how "passable" an androgynous teenager looks in gender non-conforming presentation. It's a bit like the power of advertising.

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      25. la scapigliata‏ @lascapigliata8 24 Feb 2018

        I can't imagine how hard it is for someone who is desperately unhappy and confused about their body, to decide to live with all the consequences of doctors trying to make their bodies look like something they are not. To think they're not being told the whole truth is terrifying

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      26. la scapigliata‏ @lascapigliata8 24 Feb 2018

        It's not that trans people are so different, it's that they are being failed by medicine that encourages treatments with poor outcomes, like unquestioning affirmation of inner feelings and ever faster and earlier access to drugs and surgery.

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      27. la scapigliata‏ @lascapigliata8 24 Feb 2018

        And before you repeat a mindless phrase, ask yourself: Is a schizophrenic born "in the wrong body"? A child with leukemia? A woman struggling with body dysphoria in a pornified world? If you pull that thread, the whole yarn unravels.

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      28. la scapigliata‏ @lascapigliata8 9 May 2018

        This thread is now available as an article on my blog.https://lascapigliata8.wordpress.com/2018/04/01/medicine-and-biology-apply-to-transgender-people-as-much-as-everyone-else/ …

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