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Mar 28 6 tweets 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
People continuing to lie about me and my family is not okay.

It’s been 19 years.

Not one case like mine has gone to court and won. Still.

My doctor was president of @texmed.

I would have had no chance.
Systemic negligence makes it nearly impossible to sue.

To have a case, it must be shown the standard of care wasn’t followed.

For decades, the standard of care has been for doctors to do surgery they weren’t trained to do on anatomy they didn’t know.
It took 7 years for me to get what happened to me officially diagnosed and in my medical record and took me teaching myself anatomy and finding an urogynecologist I could teach.

14 years after my surgery, the anatomy was still missing from OB/GYN literature.
When I first reached out to textbook editors and medical leadership, the research that had been done wasn’t enough to convince them.

My study and the study I got OB/GYNs to do in 2019 incorporated illustrations and photos/measurements of the nerves.

They’d been ignored.
It’s awful how people keep saying these horrible things about me and fail to recognize that I dealt with serious trauma and watched medicine fail to learn from my harm for 14 years.

NOTHING had changed. NOTHING was going to change without me making it change.

Again.
I’m still struggling to help women in my DMs find lawyers.

I’m still hearing from other women who have attempted suicide after having their genitals mutilated.

No one is getting justice. I’ve been trying to make this better with all the changes. I’ve gotten made.

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Mar 28
I hate that people say this to me after the hell I have suffered, and how I had to work harder because of lack of credentials.

I used the little money left to me by my grandfather to do free work for years to protect women.

I sacrificed everything and they call me privileged.
This wasn’t a perfect video, but how dare people say I haven’t worked hard and haven’t taken on even more trauma and sacrifice for the sake of protecting others.

I’m privileged? None of these equity people know a thing about privilege. They know even less about aptitude (780).
Because I determined in 2010 to find a way to protect others, I went through even more trauma.

I made it through college just fine but actually felt I should make a difference if I could.

But things got much worse once I dug into medical literature and advocated for change.
Read 4 tweets
Mar 28
I won’t gatekeep who can be called a woman.

But I draw the line at what can be called female anatomy.

I made my point on this years ago.
I got a lot of hate for saying that trans women aren’t exactly included in my advocacy for female anatomy, even though I repeatedly affirmed they were women.

I mate this 2k+ like video private because I didn’t want to stir up anything. Today I made it public again.
I tried really hard to be as kind and inclusive as possible.

But I explained that I am an advocate for better coverage of biological female genital anatomy, which tans women don’t have.
Read 9 tweets
Mar 28
People are attacking me for:

1. Having to, as a victim of medical FGM, dissect cadavers to get surgeons to learn anatomy known since 1844, after medical orgs and textbook editors refused to incorporate it in medical literature and curricula based on pre-existing research.

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2. Trying to determine, while in the cadaver lab dissecting clitorises, whether the “G Spot” could be the internal clitoral body, as doctors still argue about this. The best way to do this is to simply reach through the vagina to the clitoral body that had been dissected.
3. Tweeting I can tell the difference between cis and trans vulvas and pointing out that protruding labia minora, common to half of women, make that identification easier. This is ironic because surgeons call them “unfeminine and embarrassing” in medical journals.
Read 18 tweets
Mar 27
Normally the purpose of these is to educate/raise awareness about what vulvas look like so women/girls know they are normal.

I felt trans and cosmetic surgeries should be excluded because they project a patriarchal cultural norm and result in unnatural anatomic relationships.
Imagine, for example, breast implants being included in breast diversity project in a climate where people don’t really know what breasts look like and can’t tell what implants look like.

And then imagine being a teenage girl looking at that.
There is, of course, an argument that I’m wrong and that all types of vulvas should be included, but I would still argue for the surgical vulvas to be differentiated.

I was very clumsy in how I expressed this.
Read 4 tweets
Mar 27
I read peer reviewed medical journals that published that same misinformation.

This is what @Medscape says TODAY.

Do you think Medscape should be accurate?

As a doctor, why are you using your platform to harass me instead of to advocate against this misogynist medical fraud?
Why is it that this doctor and so many others confidently blame an 18 year old girl for believing content that was published in peer reviewed medical journals?

But they don’t blame entities like @StanfordMed for calling protruding labia a “dark cloud” and misinforming?
How is it that doctors blame me for being misled as a teenager 19 years ago but say nothing when their colleagues spread blatantly false, stigmatizing claims about vulvas still?

This is a textbook. It’s also on physician websites.
Read 6 tweets
Mar 26
All right. I’m breaking my rule and paying no one.

I did not have surgery because of my dad. THIS IS LIBEL. @PaulPinMD

I had surgery because other surgeons LIED about vulvas. They still LIE about vulvas.

My dad has helped me try to change this and protect other women.
I find it appalling that women are accusing me of having no empathy.

The careless willful blindness about vulvar anatomy that causes even doctors to be unable to distinguish obviously trans from female is THE SAME as that which causes doctors to gaslight mutilated women.
Do women want doctors to be capable of identifying FGM?

Research shows many don’t. They miss it.

They also miss botched vulvar surgeries that should be getting reported as mutilation.

Teenagers are getting mutilated unnoticed, How is this not something of concern?
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