The initiative would ensure that “students compete in athletic activities consistent with the gender assigned at birth,” echoing restrictions in 27 other states and effectively blocking transgender girls from joining girls’ middle- and high-school teams.
America is fucking weird. You have pediatricians that fiddle with kids bits once a year and that’s supposedly normal? Where the fuck is this happening and why haven’t I heard of it before?
It’s things like checking for testicular cancer/anomalies, worms, etc. I’d be surprised if other countries don’t do that.
Not normal over here at all. If you’ve got a problem and report that problem then sure, you can see a doctor and have a checkup. But annual checkups that include a genital inspection without an actual reason? Completely unnecessary. In fact, annual checkups aren’t a thing here either. If you tried to book in “I just want a check up” any UK surgery is going to respond with “Ok what for? What are your symptoms?”
I’m genuinely being culture-shocked by this shit. It’s weird as fuck because it’s totally unnecessary.
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NHS doctors don’t do annual physicals because they barely have time to do direct treatment to seriously engage in preventive measures like that. Go look at private doctors in the UK though and you will find that they all offer these services.
Maybe start there, because checkups are part of preventative care and much better for public health than waiting to go to the doctor only when something is clearly wrong. I don’t have any particularly strong opinion on how checking testicles is handled and if another method would be better, but in the most general terms yes it does make sense to have a medical expert check there (and other places where it’s very easy to check for symptoms of severe conditions, e.g. lymph node swelling, which can be in the genitals but also other areas) rather than exclusively rely on the child and parents who are notably not medical experts (though of course they are also given instruction on checking and reporting).
If that were true then there would be evidence that stopping them decades ago had a negative impact, but it did not.
I’m confused why something like that could just be flatly asserted. There are lots of articles you can find about underdiagnosis in the UK of conditions that things like generalized regular checks make an effort to find. Aside from the public health topic in a more general sense, could you explain about annual checkups being stopped decades ago? I’d be interested to learn about the history there but I’m having a hard time finding it because I’m pretty bad at this sort of thing.
side thing, but exclusively going to the doctor when an overt symptom emerges can be bad, as stuff like cancer/diabetes/etc can go undetected and fester
Checking for hernias or major issues once a year at an annual checkup is not sexual assault.
I did not say it was. I said it’s weird as fuck. Nobody gets their bits fiddled with over here without an actual reason or symptoms to warrant it.
In the context of an annual checkup?
It absolutely is not.
Edit: Perhaps it doesn’t happen to AFAB but based on anecdotal evidence it was still a common (albeit not annual) thing for AMAB children in the 90s, even in the UK.
https://www.ukhillwalking.com/forums/off_belay/strangeworrying_flashback_from_primary_school-723781
You sure that isn’t just part of some healthcare privatization and cost-cutting effort? I mean an annual checkup can be just a money-seeking thing so it goes either way but still.
Hernias are not a common issue for children so that still doesn’t add up at all
they dont even touch your genitals for the hernia check i dont understand what the big deal is
american. in my annual checkups there was never any “fiddling” with my genitals, doctor would just check for hernia by asking me to do that cough thing while pressing on my groin but there was no touching of genitals and i dont even remember ever having to pull my pants/underwear down far enough to where the doctor could even see my genitals