If you aren’t already aware, Health & Wellbeing - Findings from the 2022 U.S. Trans Survey was released recently. I wanted to make a post focusing on when it talks about trans men but I fully recommend yall look at the thing fully as well.
When it comes to healthcare, trans men are among the most likely to avoid care because of mistreatment and were among the highest to have negative experiences with healthcare providers.
When it comes to hormone and transition related surgery denials, trans men are among the highest.
Presented without comment. (And acknowledging this is not separated by gender and those other than trans men are included in this bit)
Lastly I wanted to illustrate the huge disparity between trans people of any gender at all and cis people wrt serious psychological distress.
Not to derail but I think it would be useful if people also took note of the nonbinary stats here, since exorsexism is running rampant in this discourse as well.
Trans men, transmascs, and nonbinary people in general are suffering right now, and sometimes it feels like the rest of the community is either ignoring our oppression or actively perpetuating it.
Another bump because as someone who works in healthcare, I have seen this multiple times.
Transmascs and nonbinary people are the ones who come in latest, with the most severe health conditions.
Transmascs and nonbinary people are the ones who neglect their healthcare because they have faced so much heinous transphobic medical abuse.
All trans folks suffer in healthcare, but it's transmascs and nonbinary people I have seen in particular, over and over again, dealing with serious and life-altering/life-threatening complications specifically because they have been abused so consistently and awfully by the medical system, in a way targeted DIRECTLY at their transmasculinity or transneutrality, that they have let otherwise treatable conditions progress to a point where they are actually dangerous.*
We need to talk about that. Transmascs and nonbinary folks need to be able to talk about that, without being shouted down by people who are not transmasc and nonbinary, who consistently downplay and dismiss their very real and dangerous suffering.
If you cannot accept that a different minority group may, in fact, suffer comparably - or even more than you - in specific ways, you are, in fact, the problem. This is your wake-up call - it's time to do some soul searching. It is NOT GOOD PRAXIS to argue endlessly with transmascs and nonbinary people about what language they are 'allowed' to use. Start campaigning to support your trans brothers and siblings, rather than trying to shut them down when they discuss the very real oppression they face.
*Intersex people also fall into this category. They weren't even included in this study - which, really, tells you everything you need to know about the atrocious state of intersexism in our society.
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