r/comics • u/radfilth • Jul 31 '26

OC Some Medical "Professionals" Be Like [OC]

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u/iwilldeleteoncemore Aug 01 '26

It's good when a health professional is willing to learn. It sucks when a health professional is asking me trans 101 questions in the limited time I'm paying them to help me.

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u/Ridiculisk1 Aug 01 '26

I hate having to play educator to people who supposedly studied for many years to do the job they do.

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u/rapscallionallium Aug 01 '26

This is exactly why I actively sought out a transgender therapist. I’m tired of training the cisgender ones (and paying them for the privilege).

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u/SleetTheFox Aug 01 '26

How long has she been practicing? Most medical schools teach this stuff now but I can’t imagine this was in the curriculum 20 years ago.

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u/iwilldeleteoncemore Aug 01 '26

I think you're confused, I'm not the person with the PCP asking the difference between pronouns and gender. I've had many similar experiences with health professionals with varying levels of experience, though.

I do wonder if this stuff is actually in the curriculum of most medical schools. I know in the US, it's often being taken out to preserve federal/state funding now.

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u/BabyCake2004 Aug 01 '26

I went to nursing school. It mentioned trans people exist and you should call them the pronouns they prefer, and that they can look like anything, and that was about it from memory. It was very brief. But my government hospital has a mandatory program every person who works there has to take about LGBTQIA+ people which includes a lot about transgender people.