, which didn’t detect anything, so she didn’t worry too much. Instead, she took warm baths with Epsom salts to lessen the swelling. But, it didn’t work. Then she started seeing signs that made her think she should visit a doctor.
“I was like a deer in the headlights,” she said. “When I was growing up, cancer was always whispered in very hushed tones. And, I was like, ‘This is the end. All of this is the end of everything.’” Lipscomb was also unique in that she never had breast augmentation surgery and developed breasts simply from hormones. When her cancer was discovered, doctors recommended she stop taking them. Lipscomb had been taking hormones since she was a teenager and worried what that meant.
Many transgender patients fear going to see a doctor because they worry about being misgendered or having their concerns not be taken seriously. “Here I am, I’m Black. I’m trans and I’m going to this hospital to be taken care of, I said, ‘How are they going to receive me?’” she said. “But nothing. No kind of racism. No anti-trans anything. I was really worried. I had already built up a wall of defense.”
Doctors will treat her as a man who has breast cancer?
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