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from 2016, a reminder that the CDC hasn't been real great at public health.
Why the fuck did paramedics assume a 20-year-old person died of natural causes, and why the fuck did the medical examiner release her still-living body directly to a funeral home????
she had to be one or more of the following:
- she was fat
- she was black
- she was visibly disabled
As if the FDA wasn’t useless enough...
“In this study there were 3,398 patients, 16 mentioned regret or detransition.
12 attribute this to social pressure, and only 3 de-transitioned with no intention to transition again.
That’s 3 people from a sample of 3,398 trans people.”
...meanwhile, weight loss with a less than 5% long term success rate, is often a requirement for HRT, and it’s the most common recommended “treatment” from everything to broken fingers to sinus infections for fat people.
It’s almost like medical gate keeping has nothing to do with patient care and everything to do with the status quo and bigotry.