Ooh, good question, that’s a tough one.
Yes it’s probably the law that they have to put you on the table and put your feet in the stirrups and tell you to let your knees fall wiiiiide apart and then…um…I guess give you a good hard poke in the balls with the speculum?
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23 responses to “Gynecologist envy”
I should by now know better than to read your comments while drinking my coffee. ;) Fortunately nothing seeped into my computer before I was able to mop it up and the burning in my nose will pass.
Honestly, are we SURE that this all isn’t the work of Russian bots?
‘She, he or it’ if said fast enough comes out as ‘sure as shit’, which would appear at this juncture to have some cosmic relevance to the topic here.
Yeah, it’s getting harder and harder to believe this person is for real.
So I imagine Yaniv will now sue the OB/GYN? He might find that doctors have more resources than genital waxers – and he lost that one already.
Sorry Pliny!
I know they don’t actually believe it, but they sure act like their thoughts about themselves can change their physical realities and their physical bodies.
(Tell me they don’t actually believe this!)
Aaah, a visit to the gynaecologist, a speculum, a cervical smear – yes, what a privilege those are.
I wonder if they actually said “transgender” or just “transwomen?” I certainly wouldn’t accept his testimony as trustworthy, seeing as he at one point claimed to have both male and female genitals in his HRT hearing.
He’s clueless enough to think of doctors as richer targets rather than harder targets. We’ll see if he goes after immigrant doctors…?
Does Canadian public health insurance cover “gynecological examinations” for fake women?
I *think* this might be referring to trans women who have had a sex change (or however you want to word it) and have a vagina?
I guess but I doubt a pap smear would do a groin wound much good…
Anna, if you mean Yaniv’s comment, he mentions that he was referred, so it sounds like he’s talking about himself. And what sort of doctor would refer someone to an OB/GYN if they don’t have the equipment that OB/GYNs treat? Why am I suspecting he may have made that part up to garner sympathy? “My doctor tells me to go there, then they won’t even treat me!”
I’m going to step out on a limb here and surmise that “I was referred to” doesn’t actually mean “a medical doctor provided a medical referral for me for a gynaecological issue”, and further surmise that Yaniv is intentionally misrepresenting reality by choosing that specific turn of phrase. Just because in a day or two I’d like to say “called it”! (And if I’m wrong… well, then the referring doctor has a lot to answer for.)
ibbica, I would bet the farm you are right on that (except my dad already sold the farm, so it’s not available to bet).
I’ll take “Things that didn’t happen” for $500, Alex.
Please, doctor, ask him where he wants the speculum.
‘Referred to’? My guess is that if someone were to dig back into Ogre’s Twitter they’d find that he’d thrown out a general ‘anybody know a good gyno in the … area? question, and the first answer will be the ‘referral’.
I’d look myself but I’m just getting over a nasty stomach bug so am already rather queasy.
(also, is it just me or has the ‘preview comment’ button vanished for everybody?)
Or even simpler, “male”. And as you note, plenty of the outrage merchants like Mr. Yaniv often take a… creative… approach to retelling an event.
Even if the provider said “we don’t serve transgender people,” the understood modifier is “transgender people *like you,*” i.e., males.
Acolyte of Sagan
It’s not just You. Parts of the menu seems to be missing as well.
Sorry, WordPress updated itself the other day and I’m clueless about the technical side of things.
No problem, it just means You have to read Your post more carefully before covfefe.
lol