At 5’10” - 300lbs - I was rather surprised surprised. This is thin privilege, indeed.
It should also be mentioned that a woman in the UK was told she couldn’t donate her kidney to her dying husband until she lost 42 lbs.
i wanted to donate marrow!
i guess im too fat for it, then
In the link above, if you actually click it, the article says:
Doctors have warned Samantha Lamb, 36, she can only give her organ to her spouse Andy Lamb if she sheds enough weight - or the operation could kill her.
I really don’t think that was the best example to use . . But Idunno.I’m almost certain that this was not because of discrimination. An operation can be dangerous for a donor with too high of a BMI.
This is about improving outcomes for fat recipients, but I imagine it could apply to developing better donor extraction procedures, too (this could be for egg extraction or other surgical procedures, like kidney extraction).
The procedure not existing, or doctors not being competent enough to perform safe procedures on heavier people, does NOT justify fat discrimination in the form of blanket BMI bans, which place the fault with the donor. If doctors can’t perform these procedures it’s their fault for being incompetent or not caring enough about the fat population to learn, and they should disclose this.
Clinics and hospitals can operate however they please; I’m not for restricting what they do or who they choose to deal with. However, they can be prepared to get called out by people like me for their bigoted bullshit.
Lastly: “I’m almost certain that this was not because of discrimination” — what a bunch of rank shit. You don’t know a damn thing about this case, Dr. Armchair. Fuck off.
Snipped some earlier conversation to keep it readable.
Demanding credulity of all medicalized fat shaming is a major tool in enforcing thin privilege. These people basically look at it as a doctor’s note giving them permission to hate fat people so of course they get pissed when we don’t consent. BMI surgicial guidelines are constructed to withhold medical care to fat people. For years surgeons insisted anesthesia wasn’t safe on fat people. Many still do. But when some doctors started experimenting with amputating a fat person’s digestive system, suddenly they were able to figure it out. Their inability to opperate on fat people was just their disinterest in learning how. As soon as opperating meant further the cause of fat stigmatization, they learned in a hurry. These complications aren’t a given. They are a product of neglect and disdain. And frankly, they may well still be less likely than than the very slim odds of a diet succeeding. The only advantage there is that long-term success is immaterial here. She just needs the short-term success that a lot of diets can offer before the failure of dieting asserts itself.
Even now, I promise you doctors would gladly remove large chunks of this woman’s digestive system. And you can believe that’s not risk free. Of course, since kidney failure is a risk of that surgery, perhaps no one was shameless enough to advocate it to her right now.
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