18 months post op

Comment by Caroline Grace on July 11, 2010 at 11:25pm

Hi, Debbie

Thanks for sharing your story... Always expect to be treated as subhuman? Wow... That is quite a statement. I would never agree with that even if that was their reality, it would never be mine...

Here's hoping that in future years your financial situation turns around.

Caroline

Comment by Julie Raines on July 12, 2010 at 2:13am

Debbie -

I would fully expect you to "look in disbelief", because that statement is born from an uneducated fear and really has very little to do with real life. It is nothing more than someone perpetuating a myth.

- Julie

Comment by Marsha M. Marsha on July 12, 2010 at 9:45am

Thank you for your update, Debbie.

Sadly I hear so much of this type of blackballing amoung medical professionals toward transgendered, physicians. I remember I was taking a stress echo a few months back in a room and all four of us are women: my cardio, two techs and myself. As I was jogging my way up to heart rate we got into a chat about gender bias and my cardio was told by her dad not to get into cardiology but to "stick with a women's medical specialty like Ob/Gyn or Dermtology." She, of course, had to prove him wrong, but she also stated she sees the wisdom of what he was saying as the medical profession is still male dominated and they protect that status fervently. To the male doctors you have committed the unforgivable sin of lowering yourself to the lesser gender. The point was driven home when after the stress echo I was leaving and a male partner of my doctor came to her office and said, to her "Leslie...(some medical terminology he was reviewing with her), not "Dr.", but he addressed her by her first name and God forbid she would have returned the insult. Granted she is GG but, that is the point we have the "insanity" to move out of the Boys Club and "demote" ourselves to females.

Thank you again for sharing your life with us and I am so glad you are content in your life.

Hugs,
Marsha

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