The Canadian Cancer Society has some questions about adequately screening biological men who identify as women for cervical cancer. And no, they didn’t mean trans men (biological women who identify as men but have a cervix). They mean biological men who have no cervix.
If you’re a trans woman, you may not have given much thought to Pap tests and cervical cancer. And if you haven’t, that makes a fair amount of sense. After all, in order to get cervical cancer, you need to have a cervix — that is, the organ that connects the vagina to the uterus.
If you’re a trans woman and have not had bottom surgery, you aren’t at risk for cervical cancer.
Seems straightforward enough until we get to this.
If, however, you’re a trans woman who has had bottom surgery to create a vagina (vaginoplasty) and possibly a cervix, there’s a very small risk that you can develop cancer in the tissues of your neo-vagina or neo-cervix. The risk depends on the type of surgery you had, the type of tissue used to create your vagina and cervix and your personal health history. Talk to your healthcare provider to figure out your specific cancer-screening needs as part of your overall pelvic health following surgery.
It can be difficult to make cancer screening a priority, especially when there’s not a lot of information out there about cervical cancer risks for trans women.
Dr. Bryam Bridle, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Viral Immunology in the Department of Pathobiology at the University of Guelph, so it is a subject of interest to him. Brindle,
“is suing the university and researchers for $3 million, alleging in a statement of claim filed in late 2022 “overlapping conspiracies” of harassment on social media and efforts to remove him from the university, a “significant loss of standing as a virologist, immunologist, scientist and academic”; loss of income and equipment; damage to his teaching career; mental anguish; and endangering his life.”
Without looking, I’d guess he’s been clinging bitterly to the old gods of science, and the Evangelists of the new pantheon are unhappy with his resistance to their proselytizing. Kudos to Dr. Bridle for resisting the urge to ‘culturally appropriate’ despite the threat of occupational crucifixion. Objections that include pondering with a critical eye the Canadian Cancer Societies’ suggestion that biological males screen for cervical cancer.
It is my understanding that trans women can have what is essentially a tunnel surgically implemented into their groin area. But, it is also my understanding that these ‘tunnels’ are not seeded with any cells that are specific to cervical tissue. As such, it would seem to be a misnomer to call any cancer that develops in this ‘tunnel’ a cervical cancer. Cervical cancers typically arise from cells that are unique to a biologically genuine cervix.
The result is something of a “which came first” scenario: it’s the chicken or the egg applied to the cervix and cervical cancer. Given that the new science forbids naming illnesses after their point of origin or discovery, it seems pigheaded to presume that names of cancers be restricted to the cells of the organs they inhabit.
Testicular cancer, breast cancer – cancer of the spleen, pancreas, mouth, lungs, blood, or brain. The people of the great reset will have to make compromises to appease our cultural cancer. Describe certain acts of arson or assault as nonviolent and others as insurrection. A mostly peaceful murder resulting from a well-intentioned act of political justice is a suicide. And showing porn to your own children is a crime, while exhibiting it to the children of strangers is a crime unless it is in a public school, in which case we must call it an “education.”
Assuming that cancer needs to be detected in an actual cervix to be cervical cancer is just a 20th-century tall tale. A chestnut from a bygone era. Especially when the leading lights of public health have redefined their purpose from improving the quality of life and longevity to population control and eugenics.
They don’t say that, but in the same way that a lump of non-cervical cells appropriating the name “cervix” could get cervical cancer, so then should the idea of modern public health connote planned genocide.
Or is that too honest for the political science of the new gods?
HT | Mark Crispin Miller
