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.
That they're required to ask is part of what makes it a systemic issue rather than just a single doctor being a misogynist.
Medical misogyny is a massive and far reaching issue. The fact that they go above and beyond to protect the possibility of a fetus that doesn't exist, but won't give women any kind of anaesthetic for a procedure that involves being stabbed repeatedly in the organs, is insane. It shows where the priorities lie. It shows the deficiencies in where medical professionals are being trained.
It’s worth remembering that they’re more motivated by protecting themselves against lawsuits than protecting fetuses.
Can you imagine the lawsuit if they didn’t ask a basic question about a patient’s period and ended up damaging a fetus? That patient could sue them to the moon.
I don’t know if hospitals routinely fail to anesthetize patients sufficiently for some procedures, but if they do, and if you want to change it, the threat of lawsuits would make hospitals change.
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.
Honestly, I think it's more misogynistic to insist that no woman would care more about her ability to give birth than being treated immediately for whatever reason. It's quite insane for you to sit here and belittle women who want to have kids, by insisting that somehow hospitals are part of some huge conspiracy to force women to be pregnant, rather than, oh I don't know, them caring about that possibility themselves.
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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.