I have been repeatedly dismissed due to being female and bisexual. It almsot led to my death. I was in the hospital and a doctor was so sure I had an std he wouldn’t call an infectious disease doctor until the panel came back (which took 5 days for some reason!) and I was actually fighting CMV and cat scratch fever and needed a different kind of antibiotic. My fever got up to 106 and I truly almost died

Medical personnel on all levels whether doctor, nurse or any others are being trained to respect this now. So sorry for your bad experience. You may be able to file a law suit. I’d check with an attorney

I have definitely had a female doctor treat me as the dumb man that doesn't understand his body and is just confused about the issues he has. I thankfully switched doctors last year and I have had a much better experience.

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I had a doctor write off my panic attacks/anxiety/bipolar disorder as me seeking attention/being an eMoTiOnAl FeMaLe and a fake bisexual.

Not me, but my mom. My mom (and me) have vascular EDS, and it took my mom about 40 years to be diagnosed because doctors, even now, never believed her. I've also had doctors not believe me about my own pains before, and most male doctors I've seen didn't believe my PCOS was the cause of my weight.

I know how you feel, for three months last year I was dismissed by the doctors because of COVID!

Being a young woman with a history of anxiety makes for a terrible experience with doctors. I once went to the hospital because my heartbeat was super irregular, and I had pain in my chest. The Dr came in and outright told me that it was just anxiety (without even glancing at my HR monitor screen, which CLEARLY showed irregularities that were accompanied with pain in my chest). I kept looking at him and back at the monitor while he explained anxiety to me (which, btw, I had already told the staff that I have a history of anxiety, so I already knew very well what anxiety is), and the man had the audacity to say, "why do you keep looking at the screen?" And right after he said it, he saw that my hr was funky and ordered an EKG. I got referred to a cardiologist (who actually listened to me with respect) & am now on meds.

Sometimes I get the feeling as if a man would say the exact things that I say, he would get treated better🤷🏼‍♀️

Always awkward now in the ER cause they see me passing male 100% but I was born female and still have F on arm band cause they said I need to call their corporate office to get it changed even though my ID says male.

Well as a young woman with severe GI problems. My unexplained weight loss and inability to eat many foods is almost always immediately considered an eating disorder, especially at the ER. I feel brushed off a lot and it's hard for me to get doctors to realize that something is really physical wrong

As a male with chronic UTIs I seem to be a cipher to doctors. I have had chronic prostatitis for over 20 years yet they act like I don't know what I'm talking about when I self report. I can tell them most of what's going on, but if they can't stick a tube up my penis without anesthesia they act like they can't figure anything out.

I often feel dismissed and find myself being to get a second opinion in order to receive correct diagnosis or treatment.

I was dismissed by hospital doctors and now, the cardiologist that implanted my leadless (internal) in pacemaker because I'm a female with physical disabilities. The cardiologist was even insulting in what he said and how he treated me.

I’ve had female doctors that were so fixated on my weight they tested me for thyroid & diabetes, in spite of me telling them I know I’m not diabetic and don’t have thyroid problems, but they neglected to treat what I came to see them about. When the results came back proving what I’d already told this woman she said, “well let’s just say you’re pre-diabetic so you don’t get complacent. Does that make sense?” I told her saying I have a condition that I don’t is nonsense.

Almost died when I had an ovarian cyst burts. That was the most painful, strange thing I have ever felt. My family told me I was being dramatic while I was laying on the floor sweating with chills, black spots in my vision, and throwing up. A year later I got an intrauterine ultrasound, the tech freaked out when she saw the puss from the cyst still floating in my pelvic area. She said I was lucky to be alive as the stuff in the cyst was likely poison and was sitting close to my spine.

I also had a very bad experience with a so called Dr. My appointment with to have a biopsy done to determine breast cancer and he ended up getting a hard on during the exam.

I am female. Pediatrician I had as a kid was horrible. At one point, I was having 15 to 20 panic attacks per day and he told me "it's not that big of a deal" my mom said that he was very condescending towards her as well. My dad and younger brother thought he was great. I also went to a female psychiatrist once. I had a really bad reaction to Paxil. It made me very suicidal. She wanted to put me on sertaline. I went to the pharmacy to fill it and the pharmacist (who I had been dealing with for many years) said that he saw I had an intolerance to Paxil. He asked what kind of reaction I had to Paxil. When I told him, he warned me to be careful with the Paxil. I have health OCD and starting a new medication is hard for me. But I didn't know I had OCD. I got really freaked out and refused the prescription. The psychiatrist became very condescending and refused to prescribe me something else, even though I explained the situation and requested a different med. Never went back.

Womens health is awful. They know nothing about hormones or pathways that metabolize hormones. Just take it all out. Then when you have symptoms after that they are confused and you’re weird

Doctors repeatedly assume that because I'm a young women and have a neurological condition that I don't know what I'm talking about or overreacting or it's not as bad as I think, or just don't think that I might be a reliable source on how I'm feeling.

Yes! My dad and I were going through very similar pain and spine issues at the same time. The difference in care was insane, it took me over 6 months for a doctor to even offer me an MRI, and then it took months to get all the procedures and injections I needed. My dad had an MRI, a large array of pain medications, and procedure within a week.

Being female and especially being so young, I am often dismissed especially when it comes to pain. I have to remind myself that the pain scale for me is different and that I live at a baseline of 3-5. My migraines to me are a 6-8 but I have to say 10 for them to believe me and give me medication. I have atypical migraines so I have to go to the ER often for injections. Being knowledgeable about what you need and advocating for yourself is often translated as “drug seeking.”

I was dismissed as a hypochondriac woman at my local ER when really I had drug induced Dystonia. I couldn't walk for days after I stopped the medication causing it. Ends up the treatment for it can be as easy as taking benadryl. I suffered for weeks with hallucinations and tremors due to taking a medication at a dose I shouldn't have even been on. 😥

Well I'm a guy that says a lot already but I also am 19 and have a few health conditions that only older people have so I feel like nobody understands me even more now than before

I've been told my depression and other mood disorders were just because I was an "emotional female" and that it wasn't that serious. They always said it was because of my period lol

Male specialists “brace” themselves for “excessive drama”, talking “too much” or “too fast”. It really bothers me to watch an old school doctor roll their eyes at my questions or responses. Even if I was/am being “overly dramatic”, isn’t that my right as a young woman with more health problems than I am years old?

I definitely think being a young femme presenting person has made it so that my symptoms are often minimized and brushed aside as not being as serious as they truly are.

they thought i was lying about my stomach for years and that it was just “girl problems” and that it “wasn’t an issue” so i went to a specialist and.. surprise, it’s an issue.

SO FROM WHAT WE'RE GATHERING HERE: ALL doctors in the United States are treating all patients like absolute shit that is alao brain-dead and watching too much WebMD TV. Good. Good we have a consensua that our medical industry is complete garbage and literally 100% of the doctors are actualky bigoted pieces of trash that stopped reading science literature when it stopped being required of them to pass an exam that would lead them to six. figures Glad my experience as an AMAB autistic aligns with everyone else's regardless of gender—because this confirma my suspicion that nothing negative happening in a healthcare facility has anything to do with gender bias anywhere NEAR as much as "learnéd professional vs. some simpleton idiot civilian" bias. Good talk. 🙏 Let's remember what's important and quit drawing fkng lines in the sand, @App Devs 🙄🤬

Also notable: The way basically everyone in here is just saying "because I'm female" without any supporting evidence whatsoever to the statement just goes to show that biases lean both ways, and walking into an office assuming they're going to mistreat you for being afab just because you carry some misandrist chip on your shoulder means you're probably getting mistreated for being an asshole, not for having a uterus. The way you carry yourself and the way that you state what you think you already know for fact to a professional you're requesting the opinion of affects everything; I'm willing to bet a lot of you when in there hot-headed making statements of fact as if from vouched authority. Your experience is not "vouched authority" to a trained professional who is not privy to literally any of your past experience, nor where you derived your sincere belief that your assumption is correct information. I haven't had a single new clinic actually retrieve my old records in my life. Has anyone here? Anyone that isnt suffering from some near-fatal affliction which absolutely requires the most expensive collaborative healthcare teams or ongoing re-analysis of an acute issue? I take this to assume that every doctor treating a new patient who walks in stating that they already know their scenario is going to treat the entire interaction with a grain of salt and try to reevaluate everything for themselves. Some people are *actually* incorrectly convinced of something, and will continue to seek new clinics until they receive the diagnosis they want rather than the one that's true. It's a thing. Everything isnt about freaking gender, this attitude is going off the deep end.

I mean 🙄 that's not what I was getting at. Mistreatment of patients by doctors is a very large, widespread issue as evidenced by this public forum alone. My point was that structuring the question to focus on gender when nearly every reply is coming from an AFAB woman means this question could have been phrased "How has your healthcare experience been in relation to personal treatment by your doctor?" or "How does your doctor treat your self-reported symptoms?" and literally no part of any answer would have to change to still be a valid, sensical answer to the question as posed. “Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away” —Antoine de Saint-Exupery This question as posed is far from perfect.

Is it wrong to suggest that, perhaps, the issue is not as much "gender-biased" doctors as it is simply "doctors still to this day do not currently receive enough healthcare training and information regarding both atypical and female biology and functions to properly treat female patients, or patients with atypical presentations, with the proper level of scrutiny and skepticism as to run enough tangible tests to be as absolutely certain of the extant concern as contemporarily possible"?

😥😥omg these are horrible experiences and sadly Healthcare has become a $$ business now, there is almost none sympathy for the patient, no humanity.

As a nonbinary, my pronouns are often dismissed because I don't "look" enby. And they are more focused on everything else, rather than making me comfortable by using they/them pronouns when I ask them to. I kind of understand because my health issues should be the focus, but it certainly doesn't help with the dysphoria

Automatically by being a girl, getting an ADHD and Autism diagnosis was hell. It took pretty much my whole elementary school board involved to get my diagnosis for both. But all throughout my life my disabilities have been downplayed by my gender. I was told I was too smart to be ADHD-Autistic, I was just sensitive, spoiled, lazy. Most of which were told to me by doctors and psychiatrists. In fact I heard it so much growing up I started to believe that I faked my symptoms for attention (even though I definitely didn’t). And even now all of that has effected me to this day. Sometimes I still downplay my own emotions because I was never properly taught how to deal with the way I feel and the way my disabilities effect me specifically. And what’s so upsetting to me is that so many young girls and women go without a diagnosis their whole life because of the way girls are perceived mentally. I was so lucky to get my diagnoses as early as I did, but not many others are as lucky. And even with my diagnoses, I never received proper treatment

A couple of Years ago I had a seizure at My boyfriends house I already knew I had a seizure disorder because I had been seeing a neurologist and he diagnosed me well i was there at his house and apparently I was having a pretty bad one so he called 911 and they took me to the hospital and everyone was so nice when I woke up until I spoke to the main doctor and he told me plain out that I wasn't having a seizure I was just crazy and I told him that I had seizures and I wasn't crazy and he said that's what crazy people say and told him I was leaving I wasn't going to be treated like that

Kayleejade - i think you should've told HIM to leave, and send in a second opinion. 😤

As a young female with a strong educational background in Biology, I have the privilege of being able to read a lot of the scientific literature about my condition, but I am always dismissed when I try to bring up things I have read about. I respect the opinion of the doctors first and foremost as they are the experts, but I hate being constantly treated as if I have nothing to contribute to the conversation regarding my health and treatment plan.

I had a make doctor rush me out without really even listening bc he took a personal phone call from his wife during my appointment and he apparently needed to not be Kate fir lunch. Absolutely unacceptable. I did complain but ended up finding a new doctor when I was told "oh wow, really? Everyone just LOVES him". Yeah, a little research and I realized the only patients who "loved him" were all men. I had shown up with my wife at the time. (I'm a lesbian) and he was visibly uncomfortable. Sad.

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My gender identity has affected how I get treated in mental hospitals so much that I try to not go to with my best ability and especially now because the last mental hospital I went to they took something personal of mine and one of the ladies touched my waist without my consent because of it and moved me in the middle of the day to another unit which all of it made me have mental breakdowns for the 4 of out the 5 days I was there

I have several stories but am already choked up reading all of yours. I guess I'm really not alone at all with this.

Yes! I have cptsd/ptsd from the gaslighting.

I had a rash on the back of leg that was spreading and painful so I went to a doctor. He said it was because I looked like sorority girl it must be an std cause I must be sexually promiscuous due to my looks. Wasn’t possible for it to be an std… Reported him never found out what happened I refused to go back there ever again. It wasn’t an std I was having an allergic reaction to pool chemicals where I was a lifeguard.

I can't count the amount of times I've been reading medical information and it's split into men and women. I'm a trans man and aside from the misgendering I'd get from being lumped in with the women category, I don't even really belong there. I have been on testosterone for 3 years now and I do not have the same biology as a cis woman and treating like I am just because of what the doctor said when I was born doesn't just make me feel bad it makes medical information very unhelpful. I have never seen an article break down where the difference in male vs female symptoms come from so I'm just left to guess at which ones I need to read because I have the hormones of a cis man and the anatomy of a cis woman

Sorry you had to deal with such incompetence! So frustrating.

I was by my pass doctor for years. When I would yell her how bad I hurt and the stiffness I could afford another doctor so I had to endure her incompetence. Now my ra has attacked my 🫁 and taken over 50% capacity, on home oxygen it socks. That these doctors don't listen, yes you went to.school and learned a lot but you still need to listen to the patient and add other specialist when a patient keep telling this same issue is bothering them. Our medicl world need to get better

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Not just doctors but I have such bad periods I cant work at my job sometimes from pain, the amount of blood, nausea, dizziness, period poops, over heating, etc etc. No one really believes me when I say the pain is so bad I'd rather have my uterus surgically removed with no anesthesia. I was just given basic birth control which admittedly has helped but I still feel like people think I'm exaggerating.

I had stage 4 endometriosis and nobody would believe me from the time I was 18 until I was 24. I was told the pain I experienced were normal period cramps even though I couldn't stand up straight or leave my bed most days. I would have a cycle for months at a time and doctors continued to tell me it was normal for years until I found a great doctor who also was a woman and listened to me

I had a dr during my SSI appeal hearing that was supposed to discuss my epilepsy, but all this douche bag would talk about was my weight (I'm 4'11" and 150lbs, which my PCP is fine with). It got to the point that the judge (bless that woman) cut him off and told that my weight is not what we're discussing. My brain is.

Ain't easy bein transgender and potentially having cysts on ur ovaries lmfao I mean I like the lack of periods but the medication options I heard would increase estrogen and shit and I don't want that

I’m 57 yrs old with intestinal issues since birth. I’ve had good DRS and bad. My latest and greatest is the VA health system and they haven’t let me down yet. Notably my last gastro tried to kill me with fiber. So glad I switched DRS. After my last surgery I complained because the surgery caused a “pooch” in my upper stomach. He put his hand on my stomach and said it was just fat ! Not that he had caused 3 separate infections and my stomach Bulged or anything 👀. He had the nerve to tell me he does gastric bypass and I should look into it. I only weighed 174 and had just undergone surgery for a bowel obstruction!

Not being able to get a contraceptive procedure because “what if you or your spouse want to have kids in the future?” Unless the future can fix this genetic material kids ain’t happening.

Currently, me being afab has lead to me being constantly disrespected as a man. Since I am 20 years old, no doctor thinks I can have the issues I have. The only reason why I have been able to get any care at all is because of the people in my life you stand up for me. Without them, I would probably be in an ER as a Jane Doe (Should be John, but you know how transphobic hospitals are.) On a ventilator. No ER doctors are able to help me and I am in constant pain. I'm told to excersize more and not be "so lazy", but that's practically impossible since working out (normal regime, not physical therapy) means my body breaks down more. I know *being* a man is supposedly going to give you more power, but it really doesn't when everyone around you sees your as a woman and then degrades you for speaking up for yourself because of wrongful assumptions and disrespect.

That is absolutely ridiculous that you would have to contact the corporate office to have them change it from F to M. Next time ask them if you also need to contact them when you change your address or phone number becaue they make sure all that info is correct when checking in.....sounds like either the ones that check people in have a problem with that or the corporate office needs to update thier system so that kind of info can be corrected when necessary. They may want to throw in a little extra training while they are at it. So im curious did you actually contact the corporate office?? And did they fix that yet?? What some people deem is not important or "minut" can be very important to someone else. When and who im this world decided that it's ok to be rude to others.....unfortunately nowadays it run rampid. I'm dying to know If they fixed that!!

Not me but my husband. Idk how many times I've went with him and him explain what's wrong and a female doctor acts like just because he's a man, he doesn't understand medical terms, his body, etc. I've had to step in a time or 2 and remind them that he is perfectly capable of understanding everything.

Since there isn't much study on the female brain (🙄) it's hard to get diagnosed with anything. That's why males are getting diagnosed left and right but females are suffering in silence because nobody will take them seriously.

People don't believe I'm autistic because I am a women who doesn't "look" autistic. The nurses in charge of the chart at my cardiologists' office defuse to put it in.

One time I was rushed to the ER because of anaphylactic shock. The doctor looked at my health history and was like "ah, it's just a panic attack, you're fine." No buddy, I didnt start panicking until AFTER I stopped breathing. And my panic attacks dont involve my lips swelling up. Thankfully he gave me the meds anyways because I was covered head to toe in hives. I'm pretty sure if I was a man he would have taken me more seriously instead of dismissing it as me being emotional.

When I went to the doctor for double vision and half of my body being numb, I was told I just needed to lose weight and it'll go away. It turned out to be MS. I've since lost 100 pounds and I most definitely still have MS...

I went to the er in December, ended up going back the same day. Cheif complaint was horrible stomach pains, like doubled over. They did a pregnancy test even though I have an IUD and when that was negative the doctor says "well maybe its just PMS". Ok I have PMDD so my cramps get bad, but I don't get periods because of the IUD and I know what menstrual cramps feel like. He called it gastritis and sent me on my way. When I came back about 7 hours later I was bleeding a ton, enough that the bleeding alone made me go back. The FEMALE doctor said maybe it was just my period. I'm like I know where the blood is coming from and thats not it. She insisted on doing a rectal exam to confirm that that was in fact the source of the blood 🙄. Of course, that triggered a lovely flashback because I have PTSD as a result of sexual assault when I was 16 so certain things trigger me. They finally did a colonoscopy the next morning and determined it was colitis. I literally had internal inflammation (which is apparently chronic) and they tried to brush it off as my period.

i have had a lot of mixed responses to being nonbinary. some very good experiences at places like the UW medical center in seattle but quite a few negative experiences at other places. especially when alone.

i'm not out to any of my doctors, but i've definitely had tests and diagnoses refused for being young and AFAB. a rheumatologist told me to just exercise and stretch and my "fibromyalgia-like symptoms" (her words, not mine) would go away. i'm very active and it's been four years. the symptoms have only gotten worse and still no diagnosis. fun times

I'm female, 39 years old, and just got diagnosed with ADHD and generalized anxiety. What's that tell you? 😒

It seems being a woman, having chronic pelvic pain, and having no reproductive organs due to cancer means I'm nuts or drug seeking. 😂😂

When I was 13 years old I went on family vacation to an island where we went zip lining together. I came back from vacation and started having a ton of pain, blisters, and swelling on my hand. I went to the doctor and she misdiagnosed me with herpes, regardless of me informing her I wasn’t sexually active. This was really hurtful to me as I was so young and didn’t know much about std’s, but I just believed the doctor. My dad was enraged and took me to a different doctor and they informed me it was poison sumac and gave me a steroid shot. It was never an STD at all and it was really odd to me that a doctor would diagnose someone with herpes when they’re hand is swelling up. Ridiculous. Very damaging for a young girl.

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I get mistreated a lot for being trans and I hate it so much. It hurts a lot

No one takes me seriously. 💁🏻‍♀️ I’m a young woman so obviously my pain is all in my head. Even in labor when I arrived at the hospital the nurses told me they were going to send me home because I obviously wasn’t in actual labor cause I was still smiling (all before they checked me)… I was 8cm and didn’t even have time for them to start an IV before my baby was born! It’s made me very good at gaslighting myself 😑 When I had internal bleeding and convinced myself it was just gas 😏

Being AFAB I'm never taken seriously and everything gets blamed on my reproductive system or weight. But now that I'm out as nonbinary? The transphobia is really bad. It can be really dangerous when receiving care.

Went into the ER actively on my death bed with pancreatitis… the first doctor I saw didn’t do a physical exam on me, instead he said “considering your symptoms it’s most likely just gastritis. We’ll still run a few tests but we’ll get you out of here” like no sir you walked in on me sobbing in pain, maybe you can actually look at me before diagnosing me.

I had a stroke last year. Until my PCP (God rest his Soul. He died back in March) spoke up, people were not taking me seriously. Now after years of numbness and issues with my memory. So forth and so on. I'm finally being tested for MS.

Everyone thinks I'm being dramatic or lying

On birth control because I'm too young and not in enough pain for them to look into it more

Dude doctors especially are just super dismissive and make me feel unsafe, but I am constantly terrified by the medical system and how disabled women are treated. It's even worse for other marginalized groups which is horrifying. I've been constantly told that my chronic illness is only related to anxiety, when there were things really wrong with me. Also, pain is seldom taken seriously enough, which I noticed at the gyno for sure. My nurse was amazing but nothing could have prepared me for how traumatic getting an IUD in is. It should fr be required to do local anesthesia, the pain is completely unbearable and I almost passed out and threw up😭it just feels like we're expected to endure so much pain and put up with so much shit in processes that should be safe and simple.

As a 30yo female, I feel like my ASD was missed as a child simply because I am female. I haven't been officially diagnosed yet, but I score high on screenings. Hoping to find a specialist soon

I’m nonbinary, AFAB, and I have endometriosis. Though a diagnosis by 19 and my first laparoscopy are 25 are far from the worst I’ve cases I’ve heard of, my pain was dismissed. The first treatment I got when the symptoms really started sinking their teeth into me- not birth control. Hydrocodone. For a 16 y/o. I don’t feel like that needs further explanation. I wasn’t diagnosed with ADHD until this year, at 29. The symptoms have been present since childhood, and a lot of my childhood trauma involves being abused for showing them. Same wrt being autistic- no doc diagnosis yet but literally every single “weird” thing is now explained. Even things I didn’t know were problems. I was also hospitalized for s/icidal ideation when I was 13- the treatment I got was inadequate and I didn’t have any therapy or even saw someone qualified to do pediatric psychiatry/psychology. 🙄 My lovely sperm donor later said my depression was “just hormones” and “just a phase,” despite his father and all four of his siblings having it. Admittedly a lot of stuff for me has to do with childhood abuse but NONE of the doctors involved in my treatment as a minor really gave a shit about me 😩 So so relieved to be in charge of my own care.

Well since I'm a female they think they can control me more.

p sure if I was a 13 year old boy concerned that I have autism I'd get a better response than "no... you have friends? then you're not autistic"

It took 25 years for me to be diagnosed with ADHD because it looks so different in females. I wish someone had paid attention to it when I was younger.

I started hrt and anti depressants with in a month of each other. It's a weird experience because of the major hormone changes and cycles. Not a bad change just weird.

i’m a woman. I identify as a woman. I was born female. i’ll go to the doctor and often times they’ll tell me it’s just anxiety, or my time of the month is coming. it’s been 8 years of this.. I just got diagnosed w lupus and fibromyalgia ab 4 months ago. my doctor said my fibro would’ve been manageable if they had addressed it sooner.

the weird thing is male doctors have been the only ones to get me treated and make my pain manageable

medical transphobia is super bad, and i’m frequently disregarded by medical professionals + i feel uncomfy seeking sexed treatment. also many of my conditions are under researched in AFABs and women or are under researched in general bc they’re more common in AFABs & women

I never knew they knew your sexual preference? I’m also bisexual but I never had to tell anyone my preference although I live in a small town. I did had some weird doctors tho

all my female therapists were awful, i recently got my first male therapist, and after all these years i feel like i finally have a real therapist. lol

Single male, no dependants. I don't get healthcare. I just suffer, and try my best not to hate the people that don't have to.

I almost died of sepsis because of medical neglect because I dress more gender fluid. So yes.

Being a gay woman, I would say definitely. The amount of gaslighting and dismissal I’ve faced is absurd. Everything is written off as anxiety, or it’s ignored and goes uncharted in my medical files. The only diagnosis in my medical chart is anxiety and depression (which was diagnosed when I was 11) and I’ve developed 7 chronic illnesses since then that aren’t documented in my chart…

Went to the mental hospital. Got misgendered and dead named a total of 24 times by one of the staff members. They had been briefed. It was on my chart. One lady even gave me a second wristband and wrote my preferred name on it for me to help me not be dysphoric. Then ONE staff member effectively increases my stay from 3 days to a week and a half stay at a place where 5 day stays are rare to never. 👍

I'm actually Apagender and so many people give me a weird look when I say that but it's a thing! When I tell people I don't have time to be caring about gender right now they're always like, oh so agender right? Heh, no. Two very different things. Agenders use It / It's , I use any pronouns. I've had so many people call me a man, so many people call me a woman, and others can't tell. So I gave up on gender.

I'm a demiboy. Been going to the same doctor since my eldest brother was a toddler. He knows me a girl. It's- It's so weird to explain to new doctors that "Hey, I'm a guy with lady bits."

I'm transmasc in the deep south. I'm always dismissed. Having mental health issues hasn't helped. I'm treated like I don't know shit, even about my own body and health.

I feel like doctors dismiss my problems often, or think I'm being dramatic. Then when there's an obvious problem they can't deny, they are like "oh, you should have been in earlier" and it's stuff where other people wouldn't handle the level of distress and would come in sooner? For example- I had TSS and was very close to sepsis bc of a new IUD placement and my uterus and right ovary were apparently very swollen and infected, they told me I might even not be fertile afterwards? I thought the pain was gas and the rest of the symptoms were just me not feeling as was to be expected from the new IUD. But with my chronic pain they think I'm exaggerating. Which I don't even get- I'm not even drug seeking. The military used to put me on opiates and I hated them and didn't take them as often or the full dose they said- and argued with my doctors to get off them. Or how I was miserable w ulcers, and the doctor didn't believe me until they did an upper and lower GI scope.

My gender and race causes me not be a priority. I’m an American and I’ve been seen by drs and professionals in the city I was born in but bc I’m not melanin deficient, I’m over looked a lot.

I feel like in general, but especially as a woman due to the unrealistic standards surrounding our weight/bodies, there is so much healthcare fatphobia. I'm not considered obese (slightly overweight more or less) but I have been misdiagnosed on more than one occasion because my conditions have been passed off as just being overweight when in reality the conditions were causing me to gain weight.

I feel like I'm not taken seriously in-person by many older, male doctors when I say that I'm in pain

I’m slowly coming out to doctors. Thankfully they don’t care about me being trans.

In the beginning, my mental illness was always dismissed as hormones by my family and most adults (born female). And my mental health issues started at 8 years old but I only started to try to get help at around 11 (I had my period at 9 didn't get normal until 10). I frequently couldn't decide if I wanted to keep faking who I was or not and my family pushed this off as mood swings from my menstraul stuff. Basically I had way more years than I should have for my mental illness to get worse and worse.

I'm genderqueer and would love to go on hormone therapy but can't because it would make me have more seizures and now I'm stuck sounding like a girl😓 sometimes this body sucks

I feel like. With being a woman, most male doctors won't listen to me and just want to prescribe me meds and send me on my way.

I was told as a teenager that “all girls feel that way, you’re just emotional” when I complained of dizziness and near syncopal episodes. IT WAS ACTUALLY A SERIOUS HEART RATE AND BLOOD PRESSURE DISORDER that is a chronic condition. But it took years for them to actually test me. Doctors dismiss women 9/10 times it feels like and thats one of the reasons women with chronic illness end up so traumatized and tired imo

My severe endometriosis was dismissed over a dozen times in the emergency room as “a mixture of anxiety and bad period cramps” meanwhile my intestines were literally tied in knots because of my condition. Made it so I didn’t get a good doc or diagnosis for over a year of sever pain, losing 40 pounds unintentionally, and being on a liquid diet because I couldn’t digest food. Lol

My Healthcare providers do not know I'm nonbinary, and I'm hesitant to tell them because I'm worried they'll just be dismissive about it

I trans (ftm) and it’s always been an awkward subject with my doctors. They would always try to blame my issues on my period, and then never do anything about it except suggest birth control. I had a complete hysterectomy as well and I’m still getting asked about my period as if that’s the source of everything!!! It’s extremely frustrating and dysphoria inducing. It’s in my chart so you definitely don’t have to ask about it as if it’s still an ongoing problem. I’m down for talking about it with good reason, but there usually isn’t one with the providers I’ve seen. Definitely have had some good interactions with nurses though. If anyone wants to chat about anything gender or general lgbt+ related I’m definitely open for that though.

I had a doctor laugh in my face when I came with concerns of a miscarriage. She told me I did have one and opened the door for me to leave. I asked her to wait and explain to me what I do now, if I need any meds or a second check up.any treatments or pain meds. Any kind of information I tried to ask her for she laughed and told me she refuses to do anything for me and to leave. I left there completely humiliated, crying my eyes out and angry. I had just been given devestating news and was kicked out the door.

When you go to the ER for a herniated disc pressed on a nerve and they say you just have anxiety 👀

i haven't gotten the money to change my name legally so every time i hear The Dreaded G Word in a medical setting i understand but i still cringe super hard internally

It's frustrating.