Got in an argument with a cis gay paramedic about treating trans patients.
Warning, this may trigger dysphoria. It did for me when I had the argument and it sucked. I'm only posting about it now because I want to improve my rhetoric for if the topic ever comes up again.
I was talking with an EMT dude at a queer bar and he went off about how it frustrated him that trans women objected to being called "biologically male" when he was treating them. He also claimed that trans women will show the same heart attack symptoms as cis men. Disclaimer, I was like 4 drinks deep at this point so I'm not sure I did the best job arguing my point. The guy also just stressed me the fuck out and I smoked like 3 cigarettes over the course of our conversation lol.
I went back and forth with him for a frustrating amount of time about the first part, trying to get it through his thick skull that "biological male" is a phrase used by transphobes and isn't even scientifically accurate. I told him that asking what gender someone was assigned at birth is the better way of getting that information (lmk what you think, how would you like to be asked?) He finally agreed only after I made the point that, if his goal is to save a trans patient's life as quickly as possible, then using the proper language is going to save time by not upsetting the patient. When I mentioned that this is why sensitivity training is important, his excuse was that he would have to do it in his free time.
Anyway regarding the second point, has there actually been any studies done on how heart attacks present in trans individuals? He insisted it was true and I didn't argue because I don't know shit about that. Instead I made the broader point that trans medicine is largely unresearched, and because of that trans people have worse outcomes in the medical system.