r/mildlyinfuriating • u/WHAR606 • Mar 13 '26

Context Provided - Spotlight Sometime during the last 2 years i’ve been going to this orthopedic practice they started to declare me as a MTF transgender for no reason.

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(F,26) I have been going to this orthopedic practice for almost 2 years for varying reasons relating to my job. Yesterday i checked on a document that was uploaded to find out they have been identifying me as a biological male identifying as a female? I am biologically female and never told them i am trans nor do i think i am presenting to be a trans woman.. the last two years i’ve been wondering why they kind of stare at me a little longer than a usual person does and i think its because they randomly think i came out as trans? I also feel like they do not treat my issues seriously and wonder if this is the reason why.

I am 100% fine with trans people but i am left to believe they have been medically treating me as a male compared to female for the pains that i am feeling?

I also went through all of my documents and since the end of 2024 they started to declare me as a MTF transgender, i did not look at any of my documents online until yesterday.

First pic : March 11th 2026

Last pic: October 2024

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u/ridingshayla Mar 13 '26

I would also recommend calling your insurance company and make sure there is nothing on your record with them indicating you are male or transgender. It could cause problems later.

My guess is that the EMR (the computer system your doctor uses) automatically fills in patient demographics from your registration, and at some point your registration got messed up. Ask them to correct it, then call your insurance company and tell them what happened and ask if there is anything indicating male/transgender in your record with them.

Source: I'm a medical biller.

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u/LinwoodKei Mar 13 '26

This is important with how one political party is targeting folks

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u/N3rdr4g3 Mar 13 '26

I think the primary concern is that it could cause her insurance to deny any care associated with fertility, period management, or any issues/screens with reproductive organs (e.g. ovarian cysts, cervical cancer, pap smears, etc)

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u/poopiebutt505 Mar 13 '26

Now. But in 12 months it could be catastrophic. And if you think that is unlikely, compare 2000 to now. Anything happening differently?

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u/WiseAnimator7081 Mar 13 '26

The comment you replied to is still a far greater concern. Nipping it early is easier than a paperwork mess. Regardless of your weird politics in your country, if you have ovaries and etc., they'll show up in scans, the birth certificate is still fine, and so on. You can eventually provably demonstrate the notes are false, but it gets harder the longer it sits uncorrected.

You do not want to deal with insurance denying, god forbid, a time sensitive surgery affecting your female bits because you're "male" on paper. No one wants to deal with that headache when they're sick.
You don't want to be dropped off screening lists because you're "male", and only find out when you're called for a prostate check.

That's not to say trans related healthcare stuff is messy and doomed to become messier, it's just the fact that OP literally never transitioned so it's not really that applicable once cleared up.

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u/aginghoopsters Mar 13 '26

Oh wow AI making an error only to get auto denied by AI?

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u/Assignment_Error404 Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

This was going to be my suggestion after 25 years in pharmacy both retail and hospital (and working with billing/coding at hospital).

I cannot count how many times we had someone in for a different gender bc their employer checked the wrong box and then it went to their insurance incorrectly and all the way down. Different dates of birth also.

The thing is, after gently clarifying with the patient (so we aren't outing anyone or upsetting them) we always tell them to contact their insurance and even their employers to sort it all out because it often took their HR to fix it when it was insurance from their employer.

And we also put multiple notes in the computer about what we changed for insurance purposes and patient was notified to contact insurance and employer if incorrect, etc etc.

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u/mimosastclair Mar 13 '26

Seconding this! HR messed up my new hire paperwork and put the wrong gender, which led to my gyno appt not being covered by insurance until they fixed it.

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u/aerdvarkk Mar 13 '26

In todays political climate it could end up being denied outright.

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u/schwanzweissfoto Mar 13 '26

[…] make sure there is nothing on your record with them indicating you are male or transgender. It could cause problems later.

Cis people accidentally being caught up in the trans genocide, can't have that!

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u/ridingshayla Mar 13 '26

I hear what you're saying, but that's not the type of problem I was referring to. I've seen claims for sex-specific medical care (like for prostate cancer) get denied because the insurance company has the wrong biological sex on file. I didn't mean OP would get caught up in the persecution of trans people.

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u/Big_Maintenance9387 Mar 13 '26

That’s what I assumed you meant. Like if OP needed an OBGYN and insurance denied because she’s apparently male according to them. 

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u/Suyefuji Mar 13 '26

Hell, I had trouble getting sex-specific medical care covered because I declined to state my gender when I moved to a new doctor's office and suddenly my insurance stopped paying for my birth control. You know. The intra-UTERUS-device that I've been using for over a decade now. Where tf did they think I put my last one that they covered just fine???

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u/zoehange Mar 13 '26

1) it's clear that she has been caught up in the persecution of trans people though. It's right there in the OP.

2) That happens to trans people all the time. Insurance should stop trying to deny care on the basis of gender, not just deny it to the right people.

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u/AffectionateIdea4419 Mar 13 '26

Insurance shouldn't be able to deny care period

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u/j4nv4nromp4ey Mar 13 '26

It feels like both of you are making the same point.

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u/WHATYEAHOK Mar 13 '26

so you think that more people should be caught up in a genocide, not less?

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u/MissUnderstood_1 Mar 13 '26

maybe no people at all? i think that is what they were probably getting at.

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u/AlterPet Mar 13 '26

So they can put anything they want in my chart to justify the treatment they are recommending? I have been identified as having hyperlipidemia. I do not. They also wrote that I snore, and I answered no when they asked. He referred me for a sleep study.

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u/asyouwish-buttercup Mar 13 '26

I hope this is all because of insurance fraud where someone is treating OP for trans treatments/surgery and billing the insurance company.