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FlatPineappleSociety t1_j1fka9o wrote

Reply to Which medical procedures have a different application when treating a woman or a man? by ViejoOrtiva

Urinary catheterization.

Abdominal pain origin can be misinterpreted.

Teratogenic medications could be accidentally used.

Eclamptic seizure could be misdiagnosed as a normal seizure and treated with a benzodiazipines instead of magnesium sulfate.

Checking for recent history of use of phosphodiesterase inhibitors before administration of nitrates could be missed.

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Sea_Midnight1411 t1_j1fjnjy wrote

Reply to Which medical procedures have a different application when treating a woman or a man? by ViejoOrtiva

The only thing that springs to mind is the category of problems to do with gonads ie ovaries and testicles. In this case, the person needs to inform the treating doctor what anatomy they have so something like abdominal pain can be treated properly. If anything, this is a disadvantage for a trans person- if they had terrible abdominal pain and couldn’t explain their situation fully, then the medical team looking after them might go looking for the wrong diagnosis because they’ve got the anatomy muddled up. This is a potential issue regardless of birth, gender or other certificates.

This sounds like an excuse to scare monger and bash the trans community rather than anything else.

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CrudelyAnimated t1_j1ff2te wrote

Reply to Can the Doppler effect make sounds inaudible by shifting frequencies out of human hearing range? Or vice versa? by IonnoFry

This is not a trick question, but it's a tricky situation. Sounds moving away from you become lower in volume by the inverse square law. So there's a perhaps rhetorical question whether you'd still be able to detect something moving that fast by the time it Doppler-shifted beyond processing. It absolutely works with light. Distant and fast-receding galaxies red-shift out of visible "colors" into infrared. You would need a very loud sound source, moving away very fast, with a starting frequency in the low end of your hearing range in the first place. There are people who can't intake below 30 or 40Hz, which is a whole octave above the typical healthy 20Hz lower limit. So results would vary across the population.

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die_kuestenwache t1_j1fcj32 wrote

Reply to Which medical procedures have a different application when treating a woman or a man? by ViejoOrtiva

Heart attacks, for instance, show different symptoms in people with XX genotype compared to XY genotype. In principle, if a transman presented with nausea and lightheadedness, the symptoms could be misinterpreted and they may not get the emergency measures required. However, this smells an awful lot like a terfy smoke screen to me.

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celo753 t1_j1f2jzi wrote

Reply to Why doesn’t injecting testosterone boost the winner effect? by cookharrisrogan

Because it’s the difference in hormone levels compared to baseline that causes a high. While your first testosterone injection might cause a high, you will quickly get used to it.

Serotonin and dopamine are not just simply hormones that when released make you feel happiness. That’s a gross oversimplification.

There are a lot of ways to “cheat in happiness”, see any recreational drug.

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