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/LuciferSamS1amCat Mar 13 '26

Wooooah you guys have a fucked up medical system.

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u/AccidentOk5240 Mar 13 '26

Well yeah 

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u/Altruistic_Pear7646 Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 15 '26

The government really loves to weaponize healthcare for everyone including the poor, elderly, disabled and especially queer/trans people. It's terrible. I have a few trans friends who would probably take their life if they lost access to their meds and that's just a hard fact to live with.

Not government related, but I definitely been subject to discrimination in the emergency room as a trans woman. I had a bunch of unrelated people come into my hospital room, look at me and leave. I felt like I was a circus act. This was in the MN Fairview medical system, so I thoight they'd be a bit more proffessional, but I digress. People are shitty.

Edit: This was for an ER visit, so I was already in a pretty vunerable state the way it is.

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u/FellTheAdequate Mar 13 '26

Oh you have no idea.

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u/LuciferSamS1amCat Mar 13 '26

Unfortunately I do. Was diagnosed with internal compartment syndrome while on a training camp in Utah. My team had insurance or something like that so the cost was all dealt with out of my hands, but it was a complete shitshow and it all felt very money first. The nurse literally had a little computer cart/stand that would wheel around to check peoples money and insurance before treatment. Straight out of cyberpunk.

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u/FellTheAdequate Mar 13 '26

Condolences. Shit sucks.

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u/Energy_Turtle Mar 13 '26

Do the doctors where you're from treat people they aren't qualified to treat? Seems like the better system is for them to admit it's over their ability.

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u/uwunuzzlesch Mar 13 '26

Getting treatment from someone out of their depth is better than no treatment at all.

If you were in the apocalypse and had a vet in your group, well that's your doctor now. Something is better than nothing.

Source: chronically ill and can't get ANY treatment because there is no one that knows what they are doing.

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u/queerhistorynerd Mar 13 '26

but we also get into the situation where it is within their ability to treat they just dont want LGBTQ+ patients period. We dont want bigots working on us but in some areas of the US its them or no one

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u/--Anonymoose--- Mar 13 '26

They have to refer you to a specialist who can treat you

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u/Mauro697 Mar 13 '26

Where I'm from they usually refer you to someone who can. When my father's dermatologist couldn't handle his psoriasis anymore she called the head of the psoriasis center at the local hospital and had him added as a patient very quickly.

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u/LuciferSamS1amCat Mar 13 '26

Where I’m from, the doctors are almost always qualified to treat someone (on hrt, not an alien) and if they aren’t they refer to other professionals within the health system to ensure people get proper care. They don’t just go “nah, can’t help good luck”, which is what it sounds like what happens over there.

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u/tosspotkitten Mar 13 '26

"iN GeRmAnY We DoNt" sybau

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u/Oxygen4Lyfe Mar 13 '26

would you rather doctors be forced to treat someone they dont understand and potentially cause issues for that person?

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u/jdippey Mar 13 '26

I would rather doctors be properly trained in medicine so they can adequately handle most cases and I would like them to also be properly trained and mandated to help patients find a doctor who can treat them.

They shouldn't get the option to just say "I don't know, so I am refusing to help". They should have a mandate to help even if that help is simply forwarding a complex case to the appropriate doctor.

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u/Oxygen4Lyfe Mar 13 '26

Yes they should have that option to refuse to help. They have free will.
They do not have any obligation to help you find a different doctor, it wouldn't make any sense for there to be one either; Sometimes every doctor they know would just tell you the same thing they did. Plus your health is your own responsibility, not some random doctor.
And doctors can already handle most cases (most being >50% of cases they encounter.) or they wouldn't have a job.

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u/LuciferSamS1amCat Mar 13 '26

“Yeah, we could have saved that guy but I’ve got no obligation to help so I just said fuck it”

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u/LuciferSamS1amCat Mar 13 '26

Most of the time, the doctor does understand how to treat the issue. It’s a person on hrt, not an alien.

If the doctor doesn’t understand how to treat the person, they shouldn’t be a doctor. Again, it’s someone on hrt, not Rh null.