@bethanyshondark I think this is awful to do something like this to your friend. You have a reputation as a hack journalist, and you’re throwing *your* credentials behind her story of abuse?
@wtyppod It’s wild that I have both a great grandpa who helped make the titan 2, and a grandpa who (according to family lore) was one of the survivors of this incident
@lemoncholia__ ??? No? For one it’s akin to a second puberty, and two puberty doesn’t really have an end date like that. People’s body’s continue to grow and change into their mid 20’s. HRT takes years and years to work. I started at 19 and now people think I’m afab nonbinary
@birdmoder If I’m remembering right, she’s got dissociative issues, among a myriad of other mental health issues, and is practically addicted to getting internet attention
Yes, actually, we do accommodate them.
We recruit rural physicians for rural communities all the time because people are more likely to trust and stay connected to healthcare systems when clinicians understand their culture, language, geography, and lived experience.
That is why we have rural tracks in medical schools, Native health pathways, Black maternal health initiatives, Spanish-speaking clinics, VA systems, tribal health systems, and community-based recruitment programs.
This is not “woke.” It is how public health works.
The difference is that nobody calls it “identity politics” when medicine bends over backward to accommodate rural White populations because that has long been viewed as normal. The outrage only seems to appear when minority communities ask for the same recognition.
Patients are human beings, not interchangeable widgets in a bureaucratic sorting machine.