Only Men Have a Prostate

[sexnotgender]

Happened to be at the doctor yesterday and there was a poster on the wall from prostate Scotland.

One of the lines on it was ‘only men have a prostate‘.

I just found it interesting after the CRUK shenanigans around smears.

LOL.

Only men have a prostate but people may or may not have a cervix.

Well, how very, very interesting. I await with bated breath the high profile campaign to shame them into changing that...

...turns blue while holding breath

You’re turning a fetching shade of smurf blue there floralbunting

Well of course, if it affects men there would be no ambiguity.

I await with bated breath the high profile campaign to shame them into changing that.

Where is all the Twitter and Momentum outrage?

Not surprised. Men aren't being asked to give anything up, just us wims.

that's outrageously transphobic and I await the Twitter storm telling them so

Surely it's because men's bodies and their parts are not unspeakable, like women's?

Yikes shit

Rewrite

Surely it's because men's bodies and their parts are not unspeakable, like non-prostate havers?

Phew that was a close one. Good catch?

We should be pleased. It just shows how aspirational and desirable women’s body parts are.

good catch !!

Here:
www.prostatescotland.org.uk/worried-about-your-prostate/about-the-prostate.

This isn't the actual poster I saw but is on their website.

WIBU to have something tattooed on my desirable body parts.

Only men have a prostate
Only women have a cervix
Cancer kills people and it is good to have a basic awareness of the above
Post operative Trans men and women may name their post operative body parts as they wish but it is subject to not messing around with the health messages above

So the symptoms on that poster about frequency of urinating / incomplete bladder emptying etc

If they take out the references to sex, I imagine loads of women who have had children and also older women in general will meet the symptoms and wonder if they may have prostate issues.

Because how is anyone supposed to know which sex specific inside-the-body bits they have, if the link to sex is removed?

I think I'll go and tweet that #OnlyWomenHaveaCervix

I am just so boggled that anyone thinks obscuring messages about cancer is inclusive or helpful to anyone.

If I wanted to save people from an existential threat, I wouldn't go out of my way to make it as oblique and unfocused as possible.

Cancer warnings might as well be "Sorry to mention it, but as a living being, you might be at risk of cancer in your body somewhere. Mind how you go."

It's the Father Ted and Father Dougal warning plan.

"Down with this sort of thing"

"Careful now"

Tangent to main issue.

Skene's gland case study (described as female homologue to prostate gland): Skene's gland adenocarcinoma with intestinal differentiation: A case report and literature review

Cancer associated with Skene's Gland is very rare: "Skene's (periurethral) gland carcinoma is a rare neoplasm accounting for less than 0.003% of all genital tract malignancies in females. Generally, adenocarcinomas of the female urethra are assumed to arise from the periurethral glands, the female homologue of the prostate". [From Skene's gland adenocarcinoma with increased serum level of prostate-specific antigen I haven'i seen any updated figures on the estimate in that paper.

Relative had inflammation of Skene's glands and Bartholin glands and almost had inappropriate surgery for it.

Would this be worth mentioning on any public health message? For the remarkably small numbers involved, and the potential for confusion, I'd think it wouldn't.

I don't know what tips the interpretation of very small numbers to be more significant in one public health campaign than another. It feels like it would conceal a straightforward public health message rather than communicate it clearly.

Moves away from own tangent.

On that one it sounds like HCPs need to be better informed, rather than the general public.

So bloody transphobic.

Surely they know that a significant and growing subgroup of females have prostates? Don't they realise that calling prostate-havers who have 'consciously rejected' the label 'men' is hurtful and triggering. Don't they want to be welcoming, respectful and civil?

Sheesh.

Don't they want to reach out?

What transphobic bigots!

How entirely unsurprising.

I've just seen this and thought of you all. Aortic aneurysm scanning, its men who need to be scanned. Men.

sardine

That so wasnt a catch...

I'd be interested as to how they would get round naming men on the aorta one! Would be fun watching them tie themselves in knots.

Could all 65+ non non-men with an aorta assigned at birth please get a scan.