It's from a paxiti comic, the same artist who made the pic SorosFootSoldier posted.
You can read it here: https://www.tumblr.com/gremlingirlsmell/747495166214012928/untitled-comic-by-pas-paxiti-on-twitter
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Very tough to read if you're experienced transphobic medical abuse yourself. But I'm glad Les dedicated an entire chapter to it, because in the end, modern medicine is what keeps us alive, be it HRT, treatment for a heart infection or emergency care.
The common theme throughout this chapter besides the bigotry is arrogance. On the one hand, you have the arrogance of individuals like John Money, who abused a child for his own little experiment, and the freak who dropped this marvel:
I remembered the resident who, while examining me for strep throat, suddenly shoved his hand down my pants, shouting, "You're a freak!"
And on the other hand, there's the arrogance of the system itself, insisting that profits are above human lives, even when countries like Cuba show the opposite. And also the whole thing about criticizing Africans for being barbaric and not banning FGM, while doing the exact same shit to intersex babies.
This arrogance kills trans and intersex people. Tyra Hunter's death is the best example of that, which happened just 4 years before this book was published. I kinda wish Les had included her case in this chapter as well because it's just such a textbook case of medical bigotry.
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