Goddamnit, you made me go digging around on r/seahorse_dads. Here's one: a pair of pooners slathering testosterone on their female bodies caused their baby to have pubes.
Looking at this user's posts, they don't have a lot but I couldn't help but notice (((something))) else...
Doctors, nurses, and midwives KNOW that taking testosterone in pregnancy is bad for the foetus. Why does trans cause medical professionals to ignore everything they know?
Its the Western
tatemae.
Imagine you went to university, medical school, did 4 years of residency, and possibly more in fellowship to become an OB/GYN or endocrinologist. That's around 13-15 years of little sleep, grueling hours, and difficult courses, all the while you're taking on a lot of debt to do this. You've finally made it, its
*Doctor* Expectant Asshole now. You're earning 300K+ a year and with ease, you're paying off your debt and you've moved your family to large, beautiful house in a great part of town.
Then one day, a stinky little pooner parks into a handicapped spot outside your office, she walks unassisted to the back of her car and grabs her highly decorated walking stick and makes her way to the receptionist. You review the medical records sent over by her psychiatrist and see that she has an extensive repertoire of mental disorders, autism, and yes,
gender dysphoria. You meet her in the examination room and see the expectant eyes of someone who's never been told no in their entire life:
"Doctor, I'm a heckin dood born in the wrong body! Even my psychiatrist, Dr. Ariel Shekelblatt finally agreed with me. I want to start taking testosterone."
You have two options:
1. Politely, yet firmly tell her no because you know she's just mentally ill and this isn't healthy.
2. Give the pooner what she wants.
If you go with 1, the pooner goes on Reddit/Twitter and doxes you for being a transphobic terf and the whole genderspecial community mobilizes to harass you, your family, and the hospital you work for. They're going to spam online reviews and send cp, rape threats, death threats, etc. all the while telling everyone you're a bigot. Before long, the hospital fires you for the headache you've caused them. Any future employers can just google your name and they'll see that you're a transphobe.
If you go with 2, then life goes on as normal. You keep living the good life while the pooner ruins hers, and you keep earning those fat MD paychecks. Its just the easy choice.