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The goddamn team doctor for the US Women’s Gymnastics Olympic team is one of the most prolific child sex abusers to use their position of trust to gain access. Highly respected, highly public, and doctor to some of the most famous and elite athletes in the world and he did it for decades. You think they’re going to throughly vet Dr. McFeely when Nowhere Middle School needs a crotch inspector and Bumfuck City, Red State has only one physician in the county?
This is for highschool sports. The state can't regulate the club sports like you are referring to so easily (if at all). Their aren't team doctors. The doctor should be the childs personal doctor chosen by the parents in this case.
This kind of comment is why there will never again be reconciliation. It’s not just leadership that’s a bunch of weirdos, it’s their supporters and defenders that find ways to excuse, justify, and normalize the weirdness with “well, technically it’s late teens getting genital inspections”. Hebephilia is still just as creepy as pedophilia and citizens excusing it is just as creepy as elected officials regulating genital confirmation inspections. You do realize this has nothing to do with personal health, it’s not an annual reproductive wellness, or STI prevention/treatment, or even “turn your head and cough” to make sure physical activity isn’t going to aggravate an injury. It’s the state saying “show someone your penis or vagina so they can make sure it’s a penis of vagina and report back to us”.
Go back and read the first two sentences of my original comment. You are confusing what you want me to be saying with what I am actually saying.
Read my final statement. I don’t particularly give a fuck “who” is doing it or their qualifications because the “why” is the problem. What kind of equipment is in someone’s underwear is not the concern of a school district, a nosy neighbor, a state, or a god. It’s the business of the person wearing the undies, the doctor they go to for health concerns about those parts, and the partner they engage in consensual relationships with. Even parents and caretakers don’t have a say in those parts, only the obligation to provide hygiene and medical treatment if the individual is unable to provide that themselves.
You really couldn't be bothered to just go back and read. You just want so bad to yell at someone, you don't even care if they are actually on your side. I guess the old saying is true. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. See ya if you make a new account.
We’re not even close to being on the same side. You are correct, minors do go to doctors for healthcare that includes reproductive check-ups and wellness; that is normal. That you’ll excuse state sanctioned genital inspections as another checkbox the doctor marks off is the problem. The only time a person’s bodily autonomy becomes a matter of public concern is if that person has contracted a communicable disease (measles, covid, Ebola) and has unknowingly spread it, and even then it’s not important who that person is, only that an otherwise anonymous patient has it and here’s who might have been exposed. The state does not need to know who’s got what in their underwear, much less have anyone, medical professional or otherwise, examine their genitals, their blood, or their DNA to make sure it pleases the state, or anyone else.