how do you answer "when was your last period" at the doctors? (self.mtf)

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I've been saying, "I was born without a uterus", which so far seems to answer honestly without directly outing myself as trans.

Any thoughts on how to best navigate this? Ideally without disclosing I'm trans 😅

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[-] will_steal_your_username 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Telling trans people that disclosing their trans status in medical contexts on the surface seems defensible, but it seems to me that it may be more motivated by a desire to reduce trans people to their assigned sex in medical contexts, which in the end is less about good medicine and more about cis-sexist norms.

Yeah. I've yet to have a medical professional gender me correctly in reports. I'm a man who thinks he's a woman to them. They all seem so pleasant until I read their reports and see what they were actually thinking.

Edit: This is Jorunn btw :P just with my lemmy account

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