I love the dedication of some nurses to doing a pregnancy test on me even as they're actively looking at my chart and seeing all the HRT and vaginoplasty and shit. "There's no way I could be pregnant" "Well let's test just in case ok?" "sure...."
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yeah but imagine the prestige on the research if they FINALLY FOUND a pregnant trans woman, eh??? that's honorary PhD levels!
Going through the motions like "that's what they all say" but no nurse for real!!!
"when was your last period" i promise you i would remember if this was an actual concern
I have my battle-honed series of answers so I can go through it all in my sleep
- I don't get periods
- I've never had a period
- I don't have a uterus
- I was born without one
In my experience nurses in like, the surgery prep room or the emergency room tend to not really be looking for the kinds of things that would make them clock someone and instead just are like OK chart says F whatever that means F no time to think about this. They're used to seeing tons and tons of people who might be all kinds of weird or disfigured or covered in blood or urine with fucked up hair and so like... yeah they're not looking at my brow line or listening to my voice