Risky
You don’t say.
Transgender women face prostate cancer risk, says first-of-its-kind study from UCSF
Of course they do: because they are men.
Transgender women have a small but meaningful risk of prostate cancer, but traditional screening tools may not work well for them, especially if they’re taking estrogen for gender-affirming care, according to a national study led by UCSF researchers.
Or rather, especially if they’re mucking up their bodies by taking estrogen to foster a delusion that they’re women. “Gender-affirming care” is a misnomer, and medical researchers shouldn’t be using it. “Gender affirmation” isn’t medical.
The research, published Saturday in the journal JAMA, is the first in the U.S. to look at prostate cancer in transgender women. It underscores the need to improve overall health care for transgender people, who are underrepresented in medical research and who experience worse outcomes than cisgender patients for all kinds of health issues.
Perhaps because they’re recklessly tampering with their bodies?
Transgender people, who are thought to make up less than 1% of the population, have mostly been left out of large studies of all kinds of health issues. When the UCSF team decided to look at prostate cancer in transgender women, the first problem they ran into was finding patients. Generally, “transgender” isn’t noted in patients’ medical records, so scientists had to look for secondary clues like estrogen prescriptions or a diagnosis of gender dysphoria.
Not noted in patients’ medical records! Gee, you think that might be a bad idea?
Perhaps it would help if we classified half of patients as “prostate havers.”
Only if we make sure to be inclusive of people who identify as having a prostate.
All of these doctors solemnly talking about “affirming” something that might not even exist.
This is a transphobic study because it might dissuade a transwomen from medical affirmation. We need to petition to have it retracted.
Perhaps the reason they’ve been left out of most health related studies is that the phenomenon is NEW! You need to have enough of someone to study before you can study them and draw reasonable conclusions.
Wow talk about navel-gazing…
“Transgender people” need more studies because… men, sorry, “prostate-havers” dosing themselves with hormones haven’t been studied enough, but oh by the way shut up don’t you dare suggest that might be a bad idea.
Can’t find transgender patients for studies because… they refuse to admit what they’re claiming to be isn’t what they are but oh by the way no you’re the deluded one they obviously Know what they are, duh.
Transgender patients are underrepresented in studies… I mean, they make up a whopping 1% of the population, and it’s the most oppressed 1%, but don’t ask which 1% because they’re actually the other sex wait I mean no difference between them and the uncool people who simply recognize their sex instead of divesting themselves of physical reality and picking their sex but we know they have worse clinical outcomes because Oppression so shut up already.
Or something.
You know who have been, and still are, underrepresented in medical research? Hint: it’s a group making up about 50% of the human population, easily found and readily identified for studies, who typically tell the entire truth about their physical characteristics and ailments, but often intentionally avoided because their hormones cycle predictably (!) or because they’re Not Typical Humans (!).
(…Ok yes, I know YOU knew that, but THEY are clearly oblivious to it.)
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Traditional screening tools would actually work fine for them, if only trans women weren’t in denial about being male. Prostate cancer screening is not something that can be done without the patient being willing, as it involves a digital rectal exam and/or a blood test. If a male patient truly thinks he does not have male anatomy and its attendant health concerns, he is not going to ask for the tests and may greatly resent the suggestion.
Worse still, doctors have a reasonable fear these days that any such suggestion risks angering the patient and may even result in them being publicly outed as a doctor that knows trans women are male (gasp!).
This makes me very, very angry. I have a relative living with prostate cancer (fortunately, the slow-growing kind) and I wouldn’t wish that on anyone; and yet, there are doctors willing to inflict it on children, because those boys have been brainwashed into believing that all the interventions given to them, from the blocking of their maturation onwards, were merely ‘affirming’ them as members of the opposite sex, instead of immensely cruel ways to prevent them growing up gay.
What’s really scary is that 1% number is going to go up dramatically, with all the health impacts resulting, due to the constant drumbeat of trans! trans! trans! and how heroic they all are.