Posted on 08/09/2024 9:39:47 AM PDT by Angelino97
When Y. J. Chichester Salant, a 27-year-old trans woman, went to an ENT doctor in Tel Aviv because of a serious upper respiratory infection, one of the first questions the doctor asked was about her “bottom surgery.”
Salant, the health care coordinator at the Trans Center in Tel Aviv, was taken aback and told him that his question had no clinical relevance to her medical condition. She said that her experience illustrates the difficulties faced by transgender people seeking health care in Israel.
“When ignorance, bias, or transphobia enters the picture,” Salant said, “going to a doctor can be a very traumatic experience.”
To address some of the healthcare issues facing the transgender community, Dr. Roy Zucker, the chairman of the Israel LGBTQ+ Medical Society, and Dr. Shimrit Arbel, head of the facial gender confirmation surgery clinic at the Tel Aviv Medical Center, organized the first-ever course on the subject in Israel.
The Transgender Care Training Program for Family Physicians ran for three days in June. Arbel said it was designed to give the 25 attending family physicians “practical tools to enhance the care they provide to the transgender community.”
Zucker said that 80 family physicians applied for the course; organizers selected physicians from each of the four health maintenance organizations (HMOs) nationwide, including from the peripheral areas of north and south. A physician working in the Arab community in Jaffa and one working in the Orthodox Jewish community in Jerusalem also attended. In those societies, Zucker said, it’s much more challenging for transgender individuals to seek medical help.
The course was sponsored by the Jewish LGBTQ Donor Network, the Israel Medical Association, the Tel Aviv Medical Center, and the Gila Project, an organization that advocates for transgender healthcare rights.
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Israel is at war for their very existence. I’m so glad they have their medical priorities squared away. 🥴
I’m so glad that Israel shares our American values.
It boggles my mind that such a tiny minority has been able to take over the west and its culture.
Ive heard there is outrage if doctors fail to understand or appreciate that someone is transgender. It is outrageous to these people to assume that someone born a man should be evaluated as a man.
But here we see, there is outrage if doctors do take note of someone’s transgender status.
We can’t win.
I had back surgery Friday. The doctor asked about every surgery I had ever had. He went back twenty years. When I couldn’t remember, he looked up the date and what had happened. I didn’t ask why, but I’d imagine that they don’t want to run into any surprises. Also, there could be long term problems they’d like to steer around in the present surgery. I can’t believe that the rather extreme amount of effort the doctor spent just prior to going under was not necessary. Their time is budgeted down to the minute.
Also, it’s likely the fake woman was taking very real steroids and steroids can affect an infection by cutting down on your immune response. The fake woman was one of those people just looking for something to complain about so it can essentially brag about how advanced and morally superior it is for being “trans.”
More proof that the primary goal of “higher education” is now indoctrination.
The left is the same global left everywhere.
So, when are LGBTWHATEVER doctors going to be made to perform hysterectomies on XYs?
As a Jew, nothing makes me cringe more than when people make the argument that what separates Israel from their Arab neighbors is their robust LGBT movement and women’s rights.
In terms of the latter, at least Israel has a healthy birth rate and a low percentage of childless cat ladies.
But I still don’t like the implication these are the two things that make the great vaunted “West” the bestest.
I prefer the Old West. And I’m not referring to saloons with swinging doors, stagecoaches, and cowboy boots.
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