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In The Hospital, There's No Such Thing As A Lesbian Knee
“But LGBT people have been so systematically discriminated against, misunderstood, and (at best) ignored within the health system that when we walk into a practitioner’s office or a hospital room we don’t assume that we’re starting at neutral in the interaction, because we know better.”
People in the LGBT community often have a hard time getting appropriate health care. But the problems aren’t unique to them. Doesn’t everyone want to have a doctor call them by their preferred name?
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Warning: contains anatomical words for trans people that could be triggering, especially of bottom dysphoria.
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