This feels like my experience with most doctors. I'm rarely told the side effects for medicines unless I ask. A lot of doctors have a "Let's try this for a few months" approach and its fucked. Consent needs to be redone in medicine across the board.

Add to that that the "just asking questions" crowd has weaponized the concept of curiosity to strip rights away, and doctors become even less likely to share info. It's frustrating. I'm an enby femme and still struggling with finding a team that can have a straightforward convo