MJ MURPHY: Medicine relies on trust. Healthcare relies on consent, and consent relies on clarity. Not surprise. So patients deserve to know who is treating them. Patients deserve the choice. Patients deserve informed consent when intimate examinations are involved. This is not complicated. This is not hate. This is basic ethics.

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— MJ Murphy (@hothingsgirlsay) July 2, 2026

"Woman Blindsided by Male Pelvic Floor Therapist Identifying As 'Sarah,'" Jordan Jantz, iWFEATURES, October 29, 2025.  

I want to talk about something that it's not complicated.  It's not political.  It's not controversial.  It's called informed consent.  And specifically how dangerous it is when a doctor presents as female but is biologically male.  And patients are not told before intimate or sensitive care.  Because this is happening.  A woman went to a pelvic floor physical therapist expecting a female therapist.  Told she was going to see a female therapist.  She's vulnerable.  She's exposed.  And then she discovers at the appointment, no, she's actually being treated by a man that goes by the name, Sarah.  No warning.  No disclosure.  Just surprise.  And for many women, shock!  Now you're under pressure. 

And another family brought their child to a pediatric appointment assuming the doctor listed as Laura Levin was a "she."  Was told they were seeing a female.  And then at the appointment they saw clearly it was a man.  Again, no disclosure.  No chance to say yes or no.  No chance to exercise the basic right that every patient deserves.  So let's be clear.  This isn't about anybody's identity.  This is about safety, consent, and trauma.  Because for patients especially women who have survived sexual abuse assault or any violation by a man, this matters.  In fact, it can be life-altering because when you place a patient in a vulnerable position undressed, examined, touched, and you fail to tell them the provider is male, you're removing their autonomy.  So when a doctor conceals, that's right, conceals, their biological sex in a medical setting, it destroys trust.  Medicine relies on trust.  Healthcare relies on consent, and consent relies on clarity.  Not surprise.  So patients deserve to know who is treating them.  Patients deserve the choice.  Patients deserve informed consent when intimate examinations are involved. This is not complicated.  This is not hate.  This is basic ethics.  And any system that pressures women to stay silent because they say "you're focusing on their genitals," they're overriding their instinct or trying to get them to ignore their trauma, that's a system that has lost its way.  Women and parents have the right to ask.  They have the right to know.  And they have the right to choose.  So keeping patients in the dark, "Sarah in California who's a man, who's six-foot Sarah" on Instagram, that's not compassionate.  That's medical deception, and it needs to end.