another day in the epstein regime
Penis Inspection Day used to be a joke
I VOLUNTEER to Look at Children’s Genitals!
-People who think Trans people are Pedophiles!
Literally peeking at kid’s privates, but remember it’s the trans and the gays that are the pedophiles.
Dr. Erica Li, a pediatrician who supports Heywood’s measure to block trans girls from girls’ teams, acknowledged that sports physicals don’t currently require sex verification.
But she noted that other types of exams do, such as annual pediatrician checkups
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.
In fact, annual checkups aren’t a thing here either.
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
Dr. Erica Li, a pediatrician who supports Heywood’s measure to block trans girls from girls’ teams, acknowledged that sports physicals don’t currently require sex verification.
But she noted that other types of exams do, such as annual pediatrician checkups, which are more robust than a sports signoff.
Every child who sees a pediatrician regularly should receive a brief genital exam at some point “to confirm that puberty is progressing properly,” Li said. Doctors could use this information to confirm birth sex without conducting a separate visual inspection for the sports physical, she said.
Li said that students could get the genetic or hormone test options listed in the initiative, in lieu of a genital exam. She also said a doctor could review a student’s birth records, though language in the initiative does not mention that alternative.
daily i’m reminded that most doctors in germany joined the nazi party
They managed to check if my puberty was progressing properly by simply asking me in a questionnaire. I never had my genitals examined as a child. Neither have my own children.
Are yank doctors really fondling the genitalia of children for no good reason?
Yeah a genital inspection is usually part of a sports physical in the U.S. Source: I played baseball in middle school
I don’t have kids, but I don’t remember this ever happening to me as a child.
Every child who sees a pediatrician regularly should receive a brief genital exam at some point “to confirm that puberty is progressing properly,” Li said
Someone needs to check this freak’s hard drive tbqh.
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Actually the proposal is similar to virginity testing which is something some people want doctors to do. And some do do
Point of order. I know you aren’t suggesting otherwise but, in fact, no one does this because it is not a thing that is possible. Some attempt it, and those people should be minced.
Wtf!! I mean, wouldn’t a birth certificate suffice??
not saying this to validate the proposed law, but some states allow that to be changed without reassignment surgery
Li said that students could get the genetic or hormone test options listed in the initiative, in lieu of a genital exam.
Ok, what about when those things don’t match the assigned sex? What do we do with those kids? If we start doing mass hormone and chromosome testing, I think we’re going to find that there are a lot more “edge cases” than we think there are.
Who genital inspects the genital inspectors
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Just very normal stuff, nothing to see here
this country keeps getting more normal by the day
And of course this is going to pass in a landslide.
Putting people’s rights up to a vote? Of course the masses will always vote to make the minority suffer.
