The funny thing is, I used to be outraged over this. Then I remembered that it’s standard practice, not unique to trans health care. Part of it is a culture of neglect, but another is the fact that doctors are seriously, seriously overworked.
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Sometimes I think people forget that doctors have one of the highest rates of suicide out of any working profession. And yet we demand more and more and more. Part of our responsibility (patients and parents alike) is to understand that people are human.https://www.ama-assn.org/about/leadership/now-s-time-have-difficult-talk-about-physician-suicide …
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Somehow I get the sense that these virulent conspiracy theories about how they’re all out to trans kids aren’t exactly helping matters.
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And I was even told I needed antipsychotics as a kid. Turns out I didn't even have a psychotic illness.
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