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doberbutts:

theflashisgone:

most-definitely-human:

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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.

Prostate cancer screening: What you need to know

Everything you need to know about the decision on who should be screened for prostate cancer.

BBC News

@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.

also historically a lot of post mortem anatomical studies and cadavers used in educating surgical students were retrieved without consent from the graves of black women (and men)

this is a fairly popular image one youve probably seen before the meticulous dissection and staging of the entire human nervous system by dr rufus weaver

but not a lot of people know who that person was before she had this happen to her and manh who do believe this myth that she graciously volunteered her body to the hospital for study

the truth is a lot muddier and harder to say for certain but her name was harriet cole who died of tuberculosis at 35 and who was exhumed without her consent and sent to rufus weaver without her consent and had her body experimented on without prior consent and now hangs preserved in a display case in drexler college still to this day 137 years later without her consent and for many years her name and race and gender were completely anonymised until fairly recently

and theres a lot of reasons to think this one of which being they officially recorded that she had a burial however rufus’ experiments started VERY shortly after her death which is odd as bodies donated to science often do not first have a burial second the only reason anyone believes she voluntarily donated her body is because rufus himself had said she had no other documentation exists to suggest such an event happened there were reports pf grave robbing of black peoples graves within weeks of when her body is believed to have been donated and lastly because it was an INCREDIBLY common practice