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aw, thank you for being so supportive 🥰 I think it will be enough to just be understanding when your mod suddenly ghosts in a few weeks 🤣 Though, knowing me, I might end up spending all my time here - we'll see. 😅

really nervous, I don't have as much hair removal as I would like so I don't feel prepared, but considering the political situation and how long it has taken to get here I don't feel comfortable delaying either ...

ah, it's "the surgery", a vaginoplasty 🙈 If all goes well, I'll be kept in the hospital for a week, then will have to stay in a hotel near the hospital for another week before I can recover at home. Recovery is about three months away from work, full recovery is like a year or so.

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and she's in China? too good to be true 👀

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I'm just trying to find a way to get my hairdresser to cut my bangs 😅 I have a major surgery in two weeks and I want to look nice in the hospital 😭

ha, thanks for your humorous comment; unfortunately this community is for women only. Hope you understand 💛

hey, thanks for your comment, but this community is for women only. Hope you understand 💛

hey, thanks for your contribution - unfortunately this community is for women-only. Hope you understand! 💛

The way that pain has historically been managed has long been influenced by racism and sexism, ACOG noted in the guidance. Studies have found that health care professionals sometimes underestimate how much pain a female patient experiences and don’t perceive female pain to be urgent, said Amanda Williams, a pain researcher and professor of clinical health psychology at University College London.

In a 2016 study co-authored by Dr. Williams, 63 pain doctors and medical students were shown images of people in pain and were asked what the appropriate treatment for that pain would be. Participants suggested “more medical referrals for the male images and more psychologist or psychiatrist referrals for females,” Dr. Williams said. The findings underscore a notion that “women can’t distinguish pain from emotion, whereas men can suppress their emotions and give you a pure account of their pain,” she added.

I had to find the extra context, but wow yeah, the old guidelines are based on super sexist notions 😬

it's a rule of this community, the rules apply to every post and comment

thanks for your comment, but this community is a women-only space. Hope you understand 🧡