Posted on 01/15/2022 2:31:19 AM PST by fluorescence
Appearing on the corporation’s Morning Live programme yesterday, Dr Xand van Tulleken repeatedly declined to use the gender-specific term for the cancer which almost exclusively affects men. According to the charity Prostate Cancer UK, cis women do not have prostates.
It does state that cis men (men who identify as male and were assigned male at birth), trans women, non-binary people who were assigned male at birth and some intersex people have prostates.
This may have led Dr Xand - whose Twitter profile features an LGBT rainbow flag - to not use the gender-specific term when he spoke about a new surgical technique to treat the form of cancer.
His comments were quickly slammed by Brexiteer and trade unionist Paul Embery.
Sharing a clip of Dr Xand’s comments, he wrote: “A doctor on the BBC cannot bring himself to use the word 'men' when talking about prostate cancer.
“So he refers constantly to 'people with prostates'.
“Do these people not understand how crazy they sound?”
He added: “Aside from the sheer insanity of it, there will perhaps be young women who don't know what a prostate is now wondering whether they have one and how to check that all is okay with it.”
During the clip, Dr Xand is asked about the treatment which involves a very small piece of surgical equipment called a nanoknife.
The TV doctor replied: “Now prostate cancer is incredibly common.
“And the thing about the prostate is that it had structures running through it.”
He explained that when operating on it “you can’t just chop it out”.
Surgeons have to be “very delicate in removing the cancer,” he continued.
“It’s also a difficult place to get to.
“So for people with prostates, this is massive news because it means we’ve got a little bit of extra accuracy in excising tumours.
“A large number of people with prostates by the end of their lives may not die of prostate cancer but they may die with it so it’s very common.”
Dr Xand explained that “at the moment” it is likely that the treatment will appear on the NHS.
lol..
LGBT has been reformulated to be more inclusive
The correct acronym is now and forever > LGBFJB
And I beat him on final JEOPARDY two nights in a row. I am a REAL Woman, by the way.
Not really. Some have begun referring to a female prostrate, an actual organ functioning as a prostate by creating fluids that coat the cervix.
How crazy? Why are we even discussing this insanity?
Do these people not understand how crazy they sound?
NO if they did they wouldn’t say it they are crazy and people are afraid to tell someone their crazy some of that woke stupidity they call normal.
They are in a special class sub-humans.
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