This is genuinely so evil
- Avoiding funding studies on black men specifically and then using the lack of studies as justification for denying care
- There is even less screening for BRCA variants with no sign this will increase if this goes ahead
- I work in primary care. We already have to justify that PSA screenings are necessary, and most of the people having the tests are actively pissing blood
- Yes, prostate cancer treatment can cause incontinence and impotence- which is why most patients with less aggressive cancers are put on to active surveillance, and those that do need treatment make that choice with the full risks and benefits explained to them
- The classic covid strategy of "If we don't test for it, numbers go down so we can just pretend it isn't an issue"
- Using the fact that some of the people who have cancer on active surveillance may eventually need treatment as evidence of overtreatment- it reminds me of how puberty blockers are considered bad because most of the people on them will eventually transition
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men. Around 55,000 men are diagnosed with each year, and 12,000 men die from it in annually in the UK. That the government is being advised to deny people even the option of knowing whether they have it is such a huge step back for medicine.
@doberbutts this feels relevant to the stuff you talk about, even if it's not specifically about trans black men.
Unfortunately black people being abandoned by medical staff is nothing new:
Black women are 3-4 times as likely than white women to die in pregnancy and childbirth. Black women are also twice as likely to develop diabetes and preeclampsia, 40% more likely to die from breast cancer, 40% more likely to develop and 75% more likely to die from cervical cancer, 20% more likely to be pushed into a C-section and overall receive nearly 30% less anesthesia and pain control than white women.
It is just sort of common knowledge that hospitals are to black women as police are to black men. Except police do target and kill black women, and hospitals do neglect and dismiss black men, as well.
You should look up the Tuskegee Syphilis Study sometime. You'll see that this is hardly the first time a country's government has deliberately played eugenics with black men's health.
