Obesity and Stigma

Stigma means that ther voice was really overlooked or suppressed in the process. I remember when regina benjamin was nominated to be the surgeon general, there were folks who actually said that this mc arthur genius grant award recipient a wasn't qualified to be surgeon general because she herself had a visible obesity. That's exactly the kind of bias that discounts people with that lived experience. Andd have you done some of the researchor works with these researches that look at theknw? Also the the problems with stigma that actually harms people other than the on the surface level, people don't get the best of care itelect internally and physiologically and all that different stuff,.