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Nonbinary and Transfem are NOT the same thing, but try telling my college's on-site endocrinologist. She embodies peak c/NotHow NonbinaryWorks. It's a long story. (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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So this story starts way back in January 2024, when I start my first semester of a state university in a liberal US state, all set to do HRT at their on-site endocrinologist. I get as far as the paperwork and certain aspects lead me to chicken out. During the visit and all further ones, I'm consistently misgendered by everyone there. Oh and I had one fucknugget of a time trying to explain to the people there that I am most certainly not a trans girl.

Just because I'm going on HRT (well, after two months of brooding, I'm opting for synthetic options which are surprisingly available at the clinic, so here we go) does NOT mean I'm a trans girl. I'm still nonbinary. But try telling THAT to my endocrinologist, who once attempted to give a transmasc-adjacent nonbinary person unwanted estrogen. Yeah, that's a fucking yikes right there.

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[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 months ago

I don't know what it is with endocrinologists, but they seem to be unbelievably incompetent. I've got an endocrinological issue, and over the past 5 years I've had one positive experience with endos – with the doctors generally ranging from harmless but useless, to downright dangerously incompetent. I've had to deal with everything from getting prescribed wrong doses of medications or radiotherapy, to having endocrinological issues or radiotherapy side effects attributed to "anxiety", etc. etc.

[-] stgiga@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago

My experiences with the medical establishment in general have been questionable.

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