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The original was posted on /r/truscum by /u/dieSchleiereule7362 on 2024-04-09 19:27:37.

There’s a poster on the wall of my endocrinologist’s office. It reads something along the lines of: “I wasn’t ‘born in the wrong body’. I’m a girl, therefore this is a girl’s body!”

It makes me uncomfortable.

Not to mention, I recognized the artist due to her past controversy that involved the way in which she drew a piece of fetish art.

I don’t care that the artist sees herself in that way; it’s the framing of other trans peoples’ experiences as negative/bad/wrong that bothers me. The artist may or may not feel gender dysphoria; that has nothing to do with me. She’s free to express her experience(s) and live as she wishes.

Thing is, I wouldn’t be seeing an endocrinologist—nor started HRT to begin with—if I believed my body was already a man’s pre-transition. I’m transitioning to align my body with who I am. Considering the medical setting, I find the whole thing wildly ignorant to borderline offensive. (I’d be less bothered by her art being displayed if it read: “Everyone is different and that’s OK!”)

Every time I visit this office, I see this poster. I’m unsure if I should say anything or continue to keep my head down. I’d like to avoid souring my relationship with my endo.