Listen, I know we dunk all the time on people who think they can flawlessly tell who’s trans, but as a doctor looking at bodies is my job. I can tell who has heart failure or liver failure from looking at them. I can identify Parkinson’s from a shuffling walk or hip arthritis from an antalgic gait. I cannot, for the life of me, clock every trans person visually.
You know how I know this? When I started at this job, my new boss told me that a member of the staff transitioned a few years back and everyone did some learning and was supportive (or else). He told me this bc he knows gender care is one of my special clinical interests, right up there with psych and migraines. And when I met my new team I said to myself, ah! There is the trans person. I felt SO bad for her being seated next to the vaguely fascist Republican Ortho guy. I told her repeatedly about how excited I was to have the opportunity to care for trans patients.
Turns out not only is she cis, SHE’S a Republican. I made her uncomfortable! I was like cisgender? With THAT hair???? GIRL YOU ARE SIGNALING THINGS! There are SIGNIFIERS!!!!
So yeah no. People can’t “just tell.” I ought to have gaydar and I ruined an entire work dinner for that woman.
#op was the republic ortho guy trans
Sadly no, he is just your garden variety orthopod who MUST believe that he DESERVES the insane amount of money Ortho bros earn.
what I’m hearing is that that ortho isn’t trans YET
I mean, or “that I know of,” clearly I can’t clock for shit! And he is on the short side!