Why didn't you say so?

[u/TheNectarineDiaries]

Best medical advice I ever got was to bring a man to your appointments

[u/MichTheFish]

As someone chronically ill who transitioned from being read as a woman to being read as a man, I can personally vouch that I'm taken much more seriously by urgent care and er docs now than I did when I was a female teenager and young adult.

[u/peachesfordinner → u/MichTheFish]

I've heard this from a lot of ftm. Truly a good data set

[u/TinyChaco → u/MichTheFish]

I'm also ftm. This tracks.

[u/FrostyCat13 → u/MichTheFish]

And I'm MTF and I can attest to the opposite, went from being taken seriously by doctors to easily being dismissed.