Transwoman on being in a woman's ward

I always thought that stirrups (for this medical setting, not when horse riding) were more of a US thing?

Also: 'stirrups'?

I've had four babies, two miscarriages, a gynae cancer scare, a colposcopy and a lifetime of smear tests and contraception appointments. 'Stirrups' have not featured at any point in this 30-odd year history of gynae interventions. Standard gynae/obstetric examinations feature you being asked to lie back with your legs bent and then let your knees fall apart. Next-level interventions like a colposcopy may have one of those examination couches with separate leg rests.

But stirrups? Someone's been watching too much gynae-themed porn.

They use the male genitals and if there isn't enough, they will use some colon (intestine) for the lining.

What hospital is this that the nurses have time just to sit around chatting to patients? When I was on the postnatal ward (both times) all the staff were run off their feet and nobody seemed to have a second to spare.

I hope that this isn't deleted for being too explicit!

The pelvis is a different shape and this dictates where the neo-vaginal canal can be placed and this plus the surrounding anatomy dictates the angle of the canal itself. The neo-labia usually surround the neo-clitoris, the repositioned urethral opeing and the neo-vaginal opening is just under the neo-labia. Then (depending on the individual this can be more or less distinct) you have the perineal raphe running to the anus.

Ah, yes, we (women) all know that, but it doesn't slot in with male fantasy now, does it, when he needs to jerk off.

Let’s hope they haven’t been having the same conversations with the women on the ward. How creepy and yes unlikely.

And gayly discusses using tampons and how to insert them, because that's what women do with each other, even as strangers! tosses flowers and petals whilst skipping merrily along

Absolutely

like as if we’d ever borrow a tampon off anyone let alone a man.

utter bollocks. I hope this author is filing this shit under fiction cost none of this happened outside their head.

How did Diana break Diana’s back? That’s a pretty serious injury. Did Diana fall off Diana's stilettos, come on, we’ve all done it.

Were the nurses talking while they all sat around on their hour long lunch break with their feet up because we all know nurses have a shit load of time on their hands 🙄 And how lucky they were to get two nurses give them 100% attention! Ffs what a load of shit.

To be fair I think the erectile tissue from the scrotum can be fashioned into a fairly realistic simulacrum of a labia. They come in all shapes and sizes after all.

However any gynaecologist that fails to notice that the burrowed-out ‘vault’ beyond these ‘labial’ folds, comes to an abrupt dead-end, is a gynaecologist that I want nowhere near my reproductive system.

Oh, the fanfiction is strong with this one.

For what it's worth I believe him. I believe that, due to a back injury he couldn't move to wash himself. And I do believe that some of the nurses may well have agreed with him that his downstairs work looked realistic. Whether they believed this or not is another matter, but they were hardly going to risk offending a trans patient in this day and age, particularly one that writes a column and holds a position of power.

More unbelievable (or not as sadly the case should be) is that he was placed on a woman's ward and believes that his right to feel validated automatically trumps the right of vulnerable women to feel comfortable. Had he been able to stand up and walk around the ward, I'm sure that there would have been a lot of complaints.

For some reason, I've got a really itchy chin today.

'You really don’t need me to tell you.

Well that never stopped a bloke did it?'

This made me chuckle. Oh so true!

I take it to mean that biological women fought hard for their rights to safe spaces in shelters, rape crisis centers, sports, gym lockers and hospitals. We won them so now some duds are coming along and taking them back.

That author can blame all the duds who take no hormones, have no surgery and do nothing but "say" they are a woman and everyone is supposed to buy that claptrap. Especially since most do it to gain access to women, make them uncomfortable and use our hard fought for rights against us. The trans community could have and should have stood against the fakers, but they didn't. So now we have to protect ourselves from the fakers by protecting ourselves from all men who try and use our rights for their pleasure.

Trans is trans. I am fine giving them their own rights. I am not fine giving mine to them.

To be fair to Ms Thomas, I think it's obvious that the paper forgot to end the paragraph after 'laughing.', and then pasted in part of a different article altogether. By mistake.

The nurses burst out laughing. “Oh, we know!” one of them exclaimed. “We’ve all been talking about it in the staff room. It looks just like the real thing!”'

I think it's plausible - I imagine them saying it very sarcastically while smiling indulgently and nodding. I think the key line is "The nurses burst out laughing."

Not gonna lie but I’m afraid to google

but even without googling i know ‘even the gynecologist couldn’t tell’ is an outright lie

I knew it would be this grifter - his Telegraph columns were awful.

What breaks? Are other HCP getting breaks?

Bastards.

Yes, they are different.

I'm sure there was a thread on here once where someone was looking at an art project of plaster cast vulvas and they thought that some were FGM, only they turned out to be post-op TW. If you find that project, the differences between natal and neo-vaginas are clear.