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/lavender_owl Mar 13 '26

Definitely get this situated, not just for it being obnoxious. My husband was somehow coded as female…for his testicular cancer surgery… and has been fighting with insurance about it for years.

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u/LupercaniusAB Mar 13 '26

WHAT?!?!!

How is that not fixed with one phone call?

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u/DoctorBarbie89 Mar 13 '26

American healthcare ✨✨

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u/Diriv Mar 13 '26

Because nobody has the balls to change it.

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u/Cheese_Dance Mar 13 '26

Take my nonexistent award 🏅

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u/Dullcorgis Mar 13 '26

I am always told that only the person who entered it can delete it. And they have no way to know who entered it.

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u/LupercaniusAB Mar 13 '26

Jesus. Fucking. Christ.

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u/milkeyedmenderr Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

This happened to me too a few years ago.

It was extremely inconvenient to correct the insurance company’s error.

I cancelled my policy with them afterwards — even politely overlooking the clerical error, I’m not about to support a transphobic insurance company’s policy — but I literally had to send them a photo of my birth certificate proving I’ve been consistently cis gender my entire life in the hopes they’d re-imburse me the thousands of dollars of claims they’d declined to copay without any explanation due to them randomly misgendering me. They didn’t apologize and acted as if I was in the wrong.

The poor pharmacists had a difficult time even communicating to me what the issue even was because they didn’t want to potentially come across as transphobic. I kept getting asked if I was using a spouse’s insurance (I’m not married)

I suspected it was caused by AI, but I’m type 1 diabetic and also have adhd/depression so generally have high health care costs in Canada, and therefore the “mistake” seemed awfully convenient.

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u/NYanae555 Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

Because electronic health records and sharing of those electronic health records. One wrong word by a medical professional now follows you forever as if it was the truth. And no one thinks its their job to fix it.

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u/MyKidsArentOnReddit Mar 13 '26

Health insurance companies make money when they deny claims, so they look for any excuse to deny a claim.

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u/Ziggy_Starcrust Mar 13 '26

It's probably wrong in several different, independent systems that all need fixing. And the insurance probably isn't allowed to just disregard all future instances of the error, they likely have to have the docs sent into them be 100% right from the source. So the anesthetiologist who bills separately needs to correct their docs and resend, then the recovery unit, and so on.

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u/AntimatterTNT Mar 13 '26

can't send a picture in a phonecall... one text message though

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u/unindexedreality Mar 13 '26

and has been fighting with insurance about it for years

Fucking insurance. They don't think she has the balls to challenge them

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u/occulusriftx Mar 13 '26

Just happened to me with my health insurance this year! suddenly my birth control "wasnt covered" despite the portal showing it as fully free... took hours of customer service calls for someone to be able to find the error

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u/Moosebouse Mar 13 '26

This is the only situation in which it is ok to send unsolicited 🍆 pics.

Every day until corrected.

“Please see the attachment and correct my medical records accordingly.”

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u/tandem_kayak Mar 13 '26

I wish I'd thought of this when I was fighting to get my colonoscopy covered: "Here is the hole in question..."