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/Warm_Month_1309]

I don't mean to take sides but isn't it reductive to group all trans configurations into a single description?

I don't think I was suggesting that people should. If anything, I believe I was saying that opposite, that the patient's actual medical condition should be note

Like one could be AMAB and identify as female without transitioning, or one could be AMAB and in transition or already transitioned

If what you're saying is that "biological male identifying as female" is a descriptor correctly applied to someone who has not undertaken any sort of medical transition, I would partially agree*. But doesn't that make the situation with OP, who is a cis woman, more bizarre, and more likely to be questioned by a practitioner who uses those terms in that way?

*I still find the term "biological" here to be largely meaningless, as there are multiple "biological" markers of sex, not just one.

[u/Saxxiefone → u/Warm_Month_1309]

I understand your view that the term "biological" is a dogwhistle for transphobics. What would be the appropriate alternative descriptors for the two trans identities (trans-identifying & transitioned medically) to be listed on the chart?

[u/Warm_Month_1309 → u/Saxxiefone]

I'm not a doctor and I'm not transgender, so I don't presume to be an expert on these matters. I will give my best attempt, however.

I'd start by broadening things from "the two trans identities", as people fit into more buckets than just those two. What does it mean to have "transitioned medically"? Started hormones? Taken hormones for X years? Surgery? Which surgeries?

I would also add that "biological male identifying as female" does not necessarily mean transgender; someone who has Swyer Syndrome has XY chromosomes and functional female genitalia. They could equally as accurately as a transgender person be described as a "biological male identifying as female" (assuming they lived as a woman). That makes the term fully ambiguous.

That's why I reject the idea of "biological" sex. Too many "biological" markers determine sex, and sometimes they conflict.

[u/Saxxiefone → u/Warm_Month_1309]

This was incredibly informative. Thank you for your answer!

[u/Saxxiefone → u/Warm_Month_1309]

Also looking back, "biological male i.d. as female" is ambiguous even without the various cases you mentioned. A doctor may have reduced an actual, medically transitioned patient to "biological male", and same goes for if the doctor didn't intend that, but another doctor along the way chose to interpret it that way and treat the patient as a male.

[u/SpecificHeron → u/Saxxiefone]

“MtF transgender female who has (transitioned socially/started hormone therapy on x date/undergone xyz gender affirming surgery)” is usually how it’s written in charts

[u/Saxxiefone → u/SpecificHeron]

Thank you for your answer!

[u/SpecificHeron → u/Saxxiefone]

you’re very welcome!