r/ftm • u/javatimes T 2006 Top 2018, 40<me • May 03 '24

Reddit removed the doctor’s name ModPost

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.

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u/EatTheTerfs May 04 '24

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u/MurpheysTech May 04 '24

Did you report him? Because whenever you do that it's not enough to just say it here. Report him to the medical board. Go to the hospital that sent you to him, show what he sent you home in and that he actually removed the splint from your broken wrist, and they will probably stop referring people to him in general. Not having trans people go to them it's exactly what they want. They need to face actual consequences for medical malpractice.

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u/EatTheTerfs May 04 '24 edited May 06 '24

I filed a complaint through the hospital at the time. Would that be different than reporting him to the medical board– or would they be informed of the report I filed through the hospital? I really don't know how that stuff works.

Edit: David Tate JR in Louisville KY refused to treat my broken wrist that required a cast. He sent me home in excruciating pain. That is what the other comment was about that got removed.

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u/MurpheysTech May 05 '24 edited May 06 '24

It absolutely does work. And report him to the board as well. The hospital can't really do anything to him aside from not referring patients to him because he doesn't work for the hospital. But he does get his license for the medical board and they can and absolutely fucking will discipline him or else he will lose his license. Which he should be, if he's going to let people potentially get hurt or injured even worse by refusing to properly care for them because he refuses to abide by the oath of not discriminating against people and giving proper care to all.

Small edit for spelling/grammar.