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tbh I kind of hate the no male gynecologists thing not just because like men who need gynecological care exist, but also because it’s so reductive of the problems with medical discrimination.
gynecology is deeply misogynistic, and it’s also transphobic and most criticisms of that idea do focus on how it leaves out trans gynecology patients, but gynecology is also deeply ableist and racist, built on inhumane research performed on enslaved and institutionalized people.
the “father” of gynecology performed the main body of his research on enslaved people with no consent, no anesthesia. HOW do you overcome that kind of original sin in the birth of a medical field?
my hysterectomy surgeon was a Black man who focused on treating Black and trans patients with abnormal uteruses. I was incredibly lucky to find a trans inclusive surgeon willing to perform a hysterectomy on a young childless person, and I can’t imagine trying to do that search
while also having to worry about ensuring my gynecologist was antiracist for my own safety if I were a Black person in need of gynecological care. he honestly might be the only Black trans inclusive gynecological surgeon in California? I didn’t come across another when
researching literally over a hundred surgeons in the Bay Area and LA. so why is it that while I see Black people (justifiably!) say there need to be MORE Black gynecologists and they’d only be comfortable seeing Black gynecologists, I see (mostly white) cis women say not that
there should be more women gynecologists and they’d only be comfortable seeing women gynecologists, but that there should be no men gynecologists at all? and even the critiques from trans people- just say cis, or there should be no gynecologists who have never and will never
need to be gynecological patients. but why would a cishet abled white woman gynecologist somehow be less likely to engage in medical discrimination? is gynecology not used as a tool of antiqueerness, ableism, and racism, especially antiBlackness and antiIndigenousness?
there should absolutely be more women (incl all women), nonbinary, and trans (incl men) gynecologists, and I do have an initial suspicion of cis men gynecologists, but how is that initial suspicion somehow more important than my initial suspicion towards abled doctors?
cis men are an oppressor group, and I am wary of them in positions of power, especially when those positions are almost exclusively over the people they oppress, in this case anyone assigned female at birth, many intersex people, and anyone who ever has a vaginoplasty
(and maybe someday anyone who has transplants or constructions of other organs needing gynecologic care such as uteruses/tubes/ovaries/etc). but I am also wary of all other people belonging to oppressor groups holding power, including my own fucking self becoming a white teacher!
on the other hand, there is no way to have exclusively people not belonging to oppressor groups in positions of power, because that is a very very small group of people and simply not a realistic way to approach a radical future.
the answer isn’t to have some kind of bioessentialist standard of who can become a gynecologist, but to broaden the profession and respect anyone who chooses to only see doctors from within their own marginalized group for their own safety.
anyway I am incredibly thankful for my Black cis man gynecologist for being the first doctor and the third medical provider to take me seriously in my life. I am also thankful for my surgical team being 3/4 (cis) women, and my primary being a trans woman. 
