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pervocracy
@pervocracy

I've seen doctors complaining that too many trans people are "doing it as a political thing, not a medical thing"

and bro it's not that I want to be doing it as a political thing

but it turns out that if you do the medical thing, politics keeps fucking happening to you

anyway I'm trying to see a new healthcare provider but in order to fill out their forms correctly so I have a hope of getting my claim approved, first I have to call my insurance company to find out if I am male or female


pervocracy
@pervocracy

actually if I am being honest this is a little unfair because I kind of am doing it as a political thing but I think I came up with the politics to sort of backfill an underlying physical dysphoria because I'm the sort of incurable rationalizer who needs to write a thousand page essay about "The cultural baggage of Hydration as health behavior" before I can convince myself to drink a glass of water

but the real real truth is that all medicine is political


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I think the argument is that doctors' time and insurances' money shouldn't be spent on politics, or that people shouldn't take any kind of medical risk for a political reason

an argument I would find more convincing if it didn't describe all of modern medicine, the whole thing is a tangle of insurance politics and liability politics and corporate politics, and trans care would be trivially easy if not for all the other politics that we didn't ask for

I can't lie, what you describe is why I cheated and lied my way through transition and never changed any of my markers on my paperwork.

Because I just knew if I tried, social services would go up in a mushroom cloud and I'd be stamping paperwork errors FOR ALL ETERNITY.

Getting deadnamed and mispronouned for the rest of my life isn't so bad, right? It's only in medical and legal stuff anyway...