I don't really understand "fatphobia in medicine." Doctors are trained professionals; if they say something is unhealthy, shouldn't we listen to them?

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bitchslapmcgee

Doctors are trained professionals living in a society based on structural and institutional oppression. That means they are just as likely to hold discriminatory beliefs themselves and were trained in a system that is based on oppression.

Pretending they are immune from that system because they are “professionals” is ignorant and disregards scores of scientific literature showing doctors can be fat phobic, racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist etc.

They’re not gods.

-FBP