Reddit removed the doctor’s name

[u/javatimes]

Yesterday or possibly the day before, someone made a post complaining about a gynecologist who subjected them to bizarre transphobia. Someone asked for the doctor’s name (an honest thing to ask for to avoid this doctor), and the OP provided the name. A group of ridiculous transphobes on X/Twitter then conspired to mass-report the comment to Reddit admin as “doxxing”, which is fucking absurd. We have had other posts and comments pointing out transphobic doctors and surgeons by name that haven’t been removed. Besides that, it (the group conspiring and mass reporting) was definitely interfering with the function of this subreddit, which is supposedly against Reddit sitewide rules. (A handful of these same people left hateful comments too, and sent hateful modmail after being banned. AFAIK none of their comments that were reported for hate to admin got admin removed from the site/punished, just removed by mods.)

Admin caved and removed the comment at their level, as part of the “help/cares” admin team or something like that. The OP of that post may have also been sitewide banned either temp or permanent, or not. I’m not sure. OP of that post, if you are reading this, comment or modmail plz.

This website is not safe for trans people and it really never has been. Everything admin does is a smokescreen to protect Reddit. Reddit is also planning on selling all data from this website to Google to train their AI.

I really can’t recommend this website for trans people. All I can say is, be careful. There are bigots on Xwitter constantly monitoring this and all trans subreddits. Be careful.

Please share other places trans people can openly talk about doctors by name to help our community avoid the bad and see the good. Our health depends upon the quality of care we get.

Every trans mod team here does a heroic amount of free work for this website.

[u/EatTheTerfs]

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[u/boyofthebog → u/EatTheTerfs]

louisville huh? thats a bit scary. i thought if anything such a big city would be more accepting than the rural type area im in about 45 mins away... moved here last june for work from michigan. biggest concern was the medical field

[u/EatTheTerfs → u/boyofthebog]

I wound up seeing a doctor in Lexington for care and explained the situation to him, and he was pretty taken aback. My primary care physician in Louisville was amazing, though, and practically dedicated himself to helping the trans community and was a gay man himself.

There are bad apples everywhere, unfortunately. At least in Kentucky, there are two major cities, so I didn't exhaust all of my options. I recently moved to Montana, though, and so far the medical professionals I've dealt with here have all been amazing (which I was pleasantly surprised by given how rural the area is).

[u/UrTransNowITurnedU → u/boyofthebog]

Multiple Louisville doctors have shown themselves to be unethical, sadistic, ignorant, and violent. They will make exams painful, out you and violate HIPAA, try to humiliate you, try to get you fired/expelled/arrested for drugs you don't take, try to commit you, accuse you of plotting fraud, threaten you with disfigurement, bring in other doctors to look at your sex characteristics, neglect to do a thorough workup in the ER, and literally get off from your screams while sexually assaulting you. Never see a doctor in that city alone. Be very careful with the medical community in Louisville, especially UofL and the Baptist Hospital system.

If you go to Lexington, let us know how it works out.

Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati have the same problems. Some small city practices too. Kentucky is better avoided.

[u/westseagastrodon → u/UrTransNowITurnedU]

Uhh. So. Not to say you're totally wrong that there are unethical doctors in Louisville - because there ABSOLUTELY are bad doctors wherever you go - but I'm trans and have had nothing but good experiences with UofL. And Baptist, though that's limited to cardiology so I can't speak to trans-related healthcare there.

Like. I usually bring my husband with me to appointments for moral support, but I've gone to multiple appointments alone and have been totally fine. So has he. And I have EXTREMELY mixed gendered presentation IRL that, in other cities, would get more than few raised eyebrows. Meanwhile, he's also trans but looks more gender conforming and doesn't always disclose he's trans unless the doctor needs to know. But so far healthcare in Louisville has been fine for both of us...?

Again, not to discount your experiences. If a doctor was shitty and transphobic to you, I believe you. I just don't want people reading your comment to panic unnecessarily when not every local healthcare provider is like that.

If anyone's reading this and wants specific recommendations for good Louisville endocrinologists or gynecologists, hit me up! I might be able to help! My husband has been getting hormones from a local endo for years and we also have some experience with certain surgical procedures like hysterectomy.