Thread by @chadfelixg

In my mid-20's I was in college, had no health insurance and got Hepatitis A.

I turned yellow and was vomiting constantly throughout the day. I went to the ER.

They asked a lot of questions including drug use and my sexual orientation and if I had gotten an HIV test.

I remember thinking this was all extremely weird and intrusive and it made me paranoid I was being treated differently because I told them I was gay.

They thought I had Hep B at the time, which is sexually transmitted and insisted I get an HIV test.

I left feeling targeted.

I talked to my college professors who confirmed I was being discriminated against.

Also my LGBT and liberal friends.

Several told me this is what black people, women and other minorities go through and I was receiving subpar care.

This fit perfectly into their social theories.

I avoided further care for this reason and became so severely sick I could barely move from the floor in my apartment for days.

With no choice, I went back to the ER and was treated.

Later I found out that I had no Hep B antibodies and my doctor told me it was Hep A.

This is more common than not, it seems, but it made me believe I was misdiagnosed *because* I was gay.

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In any case, I *believed* I had been treated differently and poorly because I was gay for years. Telling this story as evidence of discrimination in healthcare.

Until I worked in a hospital and learned the system of screening and triage.

My experience was standard.

The doctors were screening me for risk and attempting to narrow down possibilities and treatment.

My being gay was considered, but was not defining. They treated me no differently.

But I didn't know that.

My paranoia threatened my own safety and health.

I say this because its important to understand when LGBT or other leftwing advocacy hold up studies showing "1 in 3 trans ppl have faced discrimination in healthcare!' there is likely more to the story than presented.

There is an argument for more education, but that's it.

My only caveat to arguing healthcare workers are not in the business of moral judgment is the plethora of leftwing activists in healthcare who openly champion judging the worth of a person's life based on their politics.

But no one is trying to deny LGBT people care.