Hey guys! I'm doing a presentation for my local trans support meeting and I was looking for information on gyno care for trans guys (pre hysto...) and there's so little info that I'm finding. So I wanted to come here and chat you guys up. Links? Thoughts on important pieces? Tips on how to navigate the OB office?
Thanks in advance!!

Caleb posted something similar to this that got me thinking the other day...Once we get on T, and change our names, gender marker and everything. It would be so weird to be sitting there in the office waiting to be called! LOL I don't think I will ever get a hysto. Mainly because I don't think I want to be on T the rest of my life. It scares me. I want my voice deepened and hair. Lots and lots of hair. But I am scared with the whole bone density thing. What happens if I'm unable to find T one day? Things like that worry me. But yeah. It will be interesting to be sitting in the office waiting to be called and when you are called, getting looks from every female in the room

I saw posters from an awareness campaign about this sometime in the last couple years. I'll see if I can find something from that.

Also I think I've talked about genitalia and reproductive organs a bit much today, but I do have thoughts on this subject. I'll try to get back to you more later tonight or tomorrow.

You can always talk with the doctor about it, if it is a private consultation, and arrange things so you are the last in line just before the office closes. There won't be many people around.

Things like this are why I'll never go to a trans support group. I think it'd be more of a dysphoria trigger than a beneficial experience. Just saying.

I have thought about needing to go to a GYN appointment and wonder what it would be like in the waiting room with all women and me a guy.  How would I be addressed when I was called to go back to a exam room.  I would like to find a understand dr who would treat me as a person with these female parts that I really don't need or want.  I heard of one dr who had his transmen patient enter by a door that bypassed the main waiting room, I would sure like to find a dr like this.  I realize that I could have a problem with my female parts some day.  I think know that I would like to have a total hyster and be rid of them all for good. Like to hear how other transmen handle their lower problems. I use tampons to have less interaction with those parts each month.

I've gone to planned parenthood for my care. You can bring a lady friend if you want to but they also have exams for folks with different genitals.

Not all doctors who handle gynecological issues are always specialists in that field.  My GP also handles  gynecological issues but if I was in the waiting room there would be no big deal because he is part of a practice and he sees people for all types of things. And he is trans friendly.  Point of this story is that you can find a trans friendly doctor who handles general stuff so that you won't be the "only guy in a waiting room full of women"

Quote from: Andy8715 on February 18, 2012, 06:00:27 PM
Point of this story is that you can find a trans friendly doctor who handles general stuff so that you won't be the "only guy in a waiting room full of women"

I couldn't really do this. At my doctor's office, everyone treats me like a regular guy. I don't go to him for GYN stuff anymore. Can't mix the two worlds. Bad juju. So I see a GYN now, and I tell myself I'm there to provide a semen sample or something. I just act normal. If anyone has the nerve to ask, I'll just say I'm giving a sample--and then I'll grin or wink suggestively. It's not a lie--the doc will be getting a tissue sample when he sees me. Let people imagine the rest.

Sometimes there are men in GYN waiting rooms, but they're usually there with a wife or a girlfriend. I don't recall whether I've ever seen a man alone at the GYN, but it obviously didn't strike me as odd if I did. Otherwise, I think I would remember.

Quote from: poptart on February 18, 2012, 12:56:14 AM
Things like this are why I'll never go to a trans support group. I think it'd be more of a dysphoria trigger than a beneficial experience. Just saying.

Poptart this is the first time we've had a presentation since Aug. And then it was a presentation about working out and staying healthy in that regard. Our meetings are every other week and we try to be informational as well as supportive. Most the time we just talk and laugh and it's light. I definitely don't want to be triggering or harsh on anyone's day...I just want factual information out there. One guy recently told me that he didn't need need paps and had never had one because he never uses that part of his body....and I know that's not correct information. I want to make sure that these guys, who are my friends are healthy.

Caleb's gynecology thread - https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,115497.0.html

Also I like this site - http://transhealth.ucsf.edu/trans?page=home-00-00

I try to approach my genitalia and reproductive organ health like I'm just doing maintenance on a car, with the gyno as the auto mechanic. It isn't the car I should have but I still don't want it to break down.