Episode 125: Jackson King
Gender Reveal
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The Dangers of Medical Fat Phobia
Sally Kohn: Even if fat trans people may get passed, they can still be turned away due to fat phobia and all these non-evidence based standards that medical professionals have. For some fat people, it's sort of the horror of, well, I'm never going to have this surgery or be able to because I'm being asked to lose an amount of weight That could be related to disability or to eating disorders, all kinds of different things. She says she was very moved by interviews with those who had been denied life-changing surgeries in the UK as a result of "medical fat phobia"
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