So, yesterday I went to urgent care ---(minor med, whatever it's called in your neck of the woods) --- with a killer ear ache. It's been about a month since I have changed my name and I have changed it in my medical stuff.
So, I get into the room to wait for the doctor & the nurse says to me -- you can take your shirt off b/c the doctor is going to want to listen to your lungs -- and walks out. Never before have I had this happen --- usually they give me a gown to cover myself with. Then it struck me that the nurse was treating me like a guy --- not a transguy but a guy. All my medical records still say female just the name change. It was cool.
It is amazing to me how much more I am treated like a guy with the name change. No more getting ma'am on the phone anymore...it's always sir.
Despite being in incredible pain -- it made me happy to be treated that way.
