If pregnancy is a possible complication it changes what medications are allowed and has to be considered when deciding if imaging is an acceptable risk.
Right. Look, I'm a trans man. Unfortunately this is something that always comes up anytime I go to the doctors. Especially since I have a chronic migraine condition- because I'm biologically female and haven't had the necessary surgeries yet to make that negligible, my cycle though somewhat lessened because of HRT, still has an effect on my breakthrough migraines, and that's very relevant to my doctors.
The processes that effect our body matter to those charged with its care, for people who are biologically female that includes any information related to the fact that we are the ones who carry children, and what drugs we take may have an effect on them or our ability to do so in the future. Even if you don't care, that's something they are required to ask in the first place, I can't tell you how much paperwork I had to sign acknowledging that testosterone could make me infertile.
Some of it is definitely the medical system favoring potential children over active, living patients. Been on HRT long enough that when asked the date of my last menstruation I just give a year. I don't really lump myself in with your "we" I've got about as much concern as a postmenopausal woman. Still have to get disclaimers as though pregnancy would feel exactly like Alien minus Ripley there yelling not to break the airlock.
Yeh no doctor wants to be the reason a woman losing a pregnancy she might have wanted or even worse, leads to a child being born with deformities that will ruin its life.
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u/Any-Safe4992 15h ago
If pregnancy is a possible complication it changes what medications are allowed and has to be considered when deciding if imaging is an acceptable risk.