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   Broadwaybabyto (broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 20:13:10 JST Broadwaybabyto

   Doc to me: Could you be pregnant?

   Me: Nope - they removed my uterus.

   Doc: Are you sure? You look young. Maybe it was your appendix?

   Me: I know the difference between my appendix and my WOMB.

   Doc: Orders pregnancy test anyways

   We really need to discuss how AFAB patients get treated by many doctors. If you need to do a pregnancy test on everyone as a matter of course - then just do the test. But don’t waste time arguing with me about whether I know the difference between an appendix and my LITERAL womb when I’m having a life threatening cardiac emergency.

   #Gaslighting #disability #ChronicIllness #Spoonie #ableism #discrimination #advocacy

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     Hannu Ikonen MD (hannu_ikonen@zeroes.ca)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 00:01:38 JST Hannu Ikonen MD

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     @broadwaybabyto

     Doctors treating women aged about 13 to 52 as "default incubators until proven otherwise" is absolutely accepted cultural practice and not okay.

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     Anne Ominous (rustoleumlove@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 00:02:09 JST Anne Ominous

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     • Hannu Ikonen MD

     @hannu_ikonen @broadwaybabyto i was listening to a podcast about menopause and they had found a medical text from like the 60s that said after menopause, a woman had outlived her usefulness to her species.

     like., way to put a fine point on what we are here for 🙄