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@QueerMatters

RE: #AntiBlackRacismInMedicine and people I'm close with
This explains why ALL 3 of my family of choice members who are racialised as 'black' refuse to go to doctors:

A gender non-conforming cis het man who is fed up with people who are focused on what racist, bigoted narrative to force onto him, instead of doing their jobs as medical professionals.

A cisgender gay man who is fed up with constantly confronting and correcting the farkakte these bigots in medicine come up with when they interact with him.

A gay transman who is fed up with every sort of idiot he encounters in the medical field (racists, TERFs, transphobes, so-called trans allies who freak about the concept of transmen in general, so-called trans allies who are hostile to the idea of a 'black' transman, medical people who freak out about the idea of a 'black' gay transman, medical providers of colour who feel entitled to be openly hostile towards a 'black' transman but not a 'white' transman, etc)

The behaviours of many medical providers and the unprofessional medical treatment towards POCs, particularly 'black' people, are dangerous. A racist healthcare system is dangerous.

This is not an Amerika-only problem.

#RacismInMedicine