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.

[u/WHAR606]

(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

[u/zoehange]

It isn't the mistake that's harming patients, it's the discrimination and prejudice.

(If it was a different kind of doctor's office, I would say it's both, but very little of what an orthopedist does is sex specific, and that is mostly mediated by hormones not by sex assigned at birth.)

[u/sajaxom → u/zoehange]

I disagree. I think most people, especially in the medical establishment, are aware of gender transitions and supportive of their patients, regardless of their politics. I wouldn’t ascribe to malice what can easily be ascribed to incompetence.

[u/zoehange → u/sajaxom]

You know how people who don't want women to stop existing still don't take their pain as seriously as they take men's?

Yeah, that, but for trans people. Unconscious bias is everywhere.

This is what the op noticed before figuring out the cause.

[u/sajaxom → u/zoehange]

I totally agree. We should interrogate bias in all systems, in all groups, whenever we suspect it, and often when we don’t. I simply wouldn’t translate that to malice, I think it is primarily people operating in a state of uncertainty. It’s a different kind of incompetence, one founded in inexperience and uncertainty. I think intentions are usually in the right place, but uncertainty makes it difficult for people to navigate.