Bawweyooz
The commandment of the age – don’t mention women. Just don’t, ok?
Smear test invitations should not refer to women as it is discouraging trans men from accessing cancer screenings, a new study has suggested.
Researchers said that gender neutral invitations should be used instead to encourage uptake from trans men to get screened.
While at the same time discouraging uptake from women.
Current NHS guidance means that anyone with a cervix between 25 and 64 is eligible for cervical screening, including trans men and non-binary people.
In other words women are eligible for cervical screening, of course including the ones who call themselves trans men or non-binary.
The new study, published in the British Journal of General Practice, polled trans men and non-binary people on their experiences.
Individuals told researchers that “most of the negative points of the experience came from the very women focused design and language” in leaflets.
Another person said that “documents I have seen… are very feminine and woman/she/her-centred, which would make me uncomfortable if I received them”.
Oh grow up ffs. It’s just a bit of paper or an email. You’re not marrying it, you’re not living with it, it’s just some words about a preventive medical screening. Medical screenings are not yet another opportunity for identity-massaging. Get over yourself.
If women’s health puts you off getting proper preventative care maybe you’re just too dumb to live? I dunno, seems a lot like anti-masking.
If women’s health puts you off getting proper preventative care maybe you’re just too dumb to be a woman.
One of our major supermarkets has changed a department designation from “Women’s Sanitary Products” to “Period Care”. They announced it as being about reducing the stigma surrounding periods. In reality, it was a sop to the TRA lobby without outing themselves to the broader customer base.
How fucking fragile are these people? “I was going to get a pap smear, but the reminder email had the word ‘woman’ in it so I decided to not check if maybe I have cancer.”
I’ll tell you how to be “inclusive”: “All women, *including* those women who call themselves trans men or nonbinary, should get an annual cervical screening.”
There. You’re expressly included. “Inclusive.”
My last invitation for a mammogram included a leaflet stating that I would be examined by a female medical professional. So the Scottish NHS hasn’t totally gone down that transgender route.
But if you don’t tell all those people with a male or non-binary cervix that their cervix needs a regular check-up too, how are they supposed to know?
It’s not enough to validate the person anymore, we must validate them one organ at a time.
Your cervix is a valid male cervix. Your uterus is a valid male uterus.
On a side note, has there been a slight shift recently away from TRAs focusing almost exclusively on TiMs and towards TiFs and enbies? It seems to me that as more people are starting to push back against the bullying from TiMs, seeing it for what it is, there may be a change of tactics underway in which the public face of trans activism is being switched towards the less threatening groups that may be more likely to find a sympathetic ear.
I’m probably wrong, but it might be worth keeping an eye on all the same.
Re #6
There has been a significant shift in the proportion of female versus male young people who claim to be the opposite sex. Shrier’s book focuses on this, but there are lots of other good discussions of the phenomenon. Littman’s study was about girls. I don’t think I’ve seen ROGD described in boys, the social situation is different. Perhaps trans activists are responding to these things.
AoS, I have also noticed that they have always used TiFs whenever it gave them a chance to hate and bully women, such as the sanitary napkins and the pregnant people. Transmen are just another tool for transwomen to kick actual women around. It’s what they live for.
iknklast:
Bingo.