The lancet on periods “bodies with vaginas”

""In Canada, yes. It's known as gender-affirming care to insist that a gynaecologist examines the cervix that isn't there

And, yes to the latter enquiry about support for san pro""

This SURELY can't be true? If it is, what a phenomenal waste of the health care system's time and resources. This really IS the Emperors New Clothes scenario isn't it?
If a mental health patient insisted they had antenna and were half alien, would they be pandered to and declared as the first half human half alien hybrid, or would they be given prompt mental health treatment? How is this ANY different?
What a fucking joke.
So what, in this fucking ridiculous scenario, does the gynaecologist actually do? Open up the male penis with a speculum, examine and scrape the cervix that doesn't exist, send the non existent cells off for histopathology? Or in post op TW, hunt for a pretend cervix?
The world really has lost the plot.

If there really ARE TW who do this kind of thing, they ought to be fucking ashamed of themselves.

Please tell me this is a joke.

@PeppermintMocha I had probably naively assumed it only happened in America due to their health system - its rather depressing to hear that it happens here too and horrible for your friend.

Are they referring to the cat, or the cat's mother? My girl cat is spayed, but is a body with a vagina too.

Jeepers, you'd have to comment if anyone ever said that or gave you literature with that on it.

Nice to see two on the thread giving different views.

One saying something which involves pretending this is nothing to do with the new standards around language when talking about women and girls. Nothing to do with all the other things (menstruators, people with vaginas, birthing people etc, they are all fine and totally different).

And

1. Ha take that, lefties with penis-holes! Reap what you sow! It's PC gorn mad you love all that!

It would be lovely to be wrong however.

Unbelievable...what is the world coming to? You couldn't make this up!! It makes me worried for my daughters. Enough is enough, we have to speak up...all of us. I have emailed Richard Horton and the ombudsmen of the Lancet.

It says vagina because it's all about keeping the dicks happy.

If anyone gets a reply from the editor will you post the reply? I’d love to know their reasoning!

I thought FannyCann might specifically want a copy of the print issue for the shock value of the cover (I may be wrong).

I look forward to future covers referring to bodies with bones when looking at fractures or bodies with brains when discussing advances in brain surgery.

You can subscribe for free - not sure if you are then allowed to print articles?

www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/subscribe

Is it possible to purchase individual copies of the Lancet? I'd love to buy a couple and leave them lying around at work. We have some fabulous female consultant surgeons at my hospital and not only am I sure they would never refer to their female patients as bodies with vaginas, I'm also sure they'd be fuming if their male colleagues did so.

And this whole 'bodies with a vagina' thing has just reminded me of the practice in US hospitals (not UK as far as I am aware) to perform vaginal examinations on unconscious female patients without their consent. We really are in that instance seen as bodies with vaginas www.forbes.com/sites/paulhsieh/2018/05/14/pelvic-exams-on-anesthetized-women-without-consent-a-troubling-and-outdated-practice/amp/#aoh=16325867838090&csi=1&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s

(This article is from 2018 but there are more recent ones. This one seemed to give a good overview though)

Giving rights to a minority should not dehumanise a majority.

Now do us all a favour and stop trying to derail.

while ago some Transwomen took part in some protest campaign and about 300 booked smear tests, undressed and the nurse was faced with penis and scrotum

Were they protesting against women having healthcare? Seems a mite ambitious of them, I don't think that's going to fit in the Overton Window till 2023 or so.

I wonder how editorial decisions are made at the Lancet. Could this all be the fault of the body with a Vagina Museum or are there other bodies with stupid woke opinions on the editorial board?

I doubt it would have been any of the flavours of the NHS in the 4 nations (I would be horrified to be wrong).

The irony involved in “Historically the anatomy and physiology of bodies with vaginas has been neglected” is so much that I can’t even manage to make a coherent sentence about it.

Ooooh - yes I can.

“Maybe that’s because you don’t see women as people!”

“ As for 'small marginalised group', it's astonishing how much power they actually have, wiping away language used to describe 51% of the population.”

Emmmm that’s what left wing political correctness is for. Protecting small marginalised groups from discrimination by the majority. That’s exactly why it was wanted. Did Labour voters miss that or something?

This one really hurt. The Lancet?
Shame on you