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A GUI TO THE GAY MAN'S PHYSIL EXAM
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If I am receivg lbian and gay patients’ feedback on preference for an oppose genred doctor to rce the strs/embarrassment of the experience of physil examatns – uld this suggt the some bi-sexual people fd physil examatns even more strsful/ embarrassg than heterosexuals, gay or lbian patients? "If you intify as lbian, gay, bisexual o trans* have you got an experience regardg your GP health re you’d be willg to share?
Sce there are certa risk factors that perta specifilly to the gay muny, this discsn will foc on aspects of the physil exam that are cril for gay men. Natnal Transgenr Discrimatn Survey; Report on Health and Healthre [Washgton, DC: Natnal Center for Transgenr Equaly and Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force; 2010 Oct [ced 2016 Mar 10] p.
Before the amendment, gay men had to endure rectal examatns and provi photographic material of themselv durg terurse to prove their homosexualy. In 2010, one article the German news magaze Der Spiegel, entled “Porn for the General” (Popp 2010), ed some sensatn bee acced the ary of storg the biggt gay porn llectn Turkey (Hearn, Biricik & Joelsson 2016, 33).
GAY MALE PHYSIL EXAMS
The annual physil exam is tght as a universal modaly medil schools. Sce there are certa risk factors that perta specifilly to the gay muny, this discsn will foc on aspects of the physil exam that are cril for gay men. * physical examination gay *
To pe a prevailg homophobia and anti-gay vlence the ary, many gay men seek exemptn om ary service on grounds of their homosexualy which is classified a “psychosexual disorr. ” Addnally, they refer to the social stigma surroundg homosexualy Turkey which materializ the “unf report, ” also lled “rotten report, ” that gay men receive after beg discharged. “gettg this report means that you disclose and document your gay inty […] this means social excln, loss of job opportuni, no chance of beg a public employee, creasg snubs and prsure om your social environment.
Even though provg practic have been amend and now ary doctors evaluate a person’s homosexualy “only” based on his behavr and verbal claratn of beg gay, rectal examatns as a proof of homosexualy offer an sightful se to theoretilly engage wh the qutn of how bodi are done by lotg some kd of proof wh them. By lookg at how gay men Turkey provi and produce photographic evince of themselv durg terurse and unrgo the medil examatn of their anal ton’s elasticy (Çar 2014), I attend to how a specific homosexual body emerg the provg practic.
As a rult, a foc on assemblag and enacted ontologi should not oblerate the important work done on how homosexualy has been brought to existence as the “viant Other” medi-scientific disurs (Fouult 1978; Terry 1995). In his analysis of nscript to the Turkish ary, Biricik (2012) posns gay men’s strategi to be exempted and receive the “rotten report” wh the natn-state’s propagatn of hegemonic masculy.
ANNUAL PHYSIL EXAM GAY, GA
” He further shows how gay men make e of this fixed hegemonic masculy by adoptg the “medilized notn of viancy” (ibid, 96) their genr performance durg examatn. Th, stead of takg for granted bodi as enti, I ask how the body (and not jt any, but a homosexual body) emerg the Turkish ary’s medil examatn.
Followg Latour and Woolgar ([1979] 1986) on the nstctn of scientific facts, homosexualy be a stable fact the ary hospal through s rporatn a body of knowledge. Acrdg to a BBC article (Azizlerli 2012), homosexualy be a “psychosexual disorr” reference to a document by the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn om 1986.
Doctors addnally e the photographs as evince of not “fakg” medil reports (Biricik 2012, 94), if unterproof suggts that the man’s homosexualy was not that much of a stable object (for stance, if he marri a woman shortly after the examatn). Bodi are moved certa ways, drsed women’s cloths, adorned wh jewelry, pated wh make-up, shaved and modified wh hormon to meet expectatns about the effemate gay (Biricik 2012). Addnally, homosexualy emerg the practice of beg anally perated which is ma visible and proved photographs, like the microspe mak visible thickened vsel walls and prov atherosclerosis.