#informed consent

“55 mg caffeine” right there on the front label.

I should not be half way through a beverage only to ACCIDENTALLY see on the very bottom of the back label UNDER the ingredients that it has as much caffeine as a bottle of Mountain Dew or a Coke. Yes, technically it does say there’s caffeine on the front, but it’s hidden way at the bottom and NOT easily distinguished.

IT’S FUCKING COCONUT WATER.

So yeah. Warning, the Bai coconut drink “Molokai Coconut” has caffeine in it. How the bottle looks vs. how it SHOULD look.

this allows them to make sure you genuinely are giving informed consent, because you are not just agreeing, but explaining your understanding of what you're doing, and your reason for doing it.

I would like this to be a model applied to everything.

for people who don't already know what healthcare they want or how it works, there needs to be a process where they can learn all that information. every effort should be made to bridge communication barriers and allow the patient to meaningfully gain knowledge about their body and options.

then once the person can understand their options enough to explain what they want and why, they should receive the care that they request.

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Well, honestly, a lot of people are taught that and I don't think you're actually taking it too literally; a lot of people believe that! The matter of fact is just that it's actually a bit more complicated.

It's "easier" to teach that drugs/alcohol automatically make someone incapable of consenting to anything, just like it's easier to say children shouldn't have sex at all and need adults to consent to anything medical related to their bodies "for them" but that doesn't mean its true.

Actually, plenty of people are still capable of consent while intoxicated. It just depends on the people, how intoxicated they are and sometimes whether they consented before becoming intoxicated or not.

Intox(ication) play, in fact, can heavily involve exploring having sex while intoxicated and relies on informed consent, where someone makes a decision beforehand to do something even if they don't know if they'll be in the mindset to take it back during.

But this doesn't mean intoxication can't affect consent. Some people completely lose their ability to consent when they're intoxicated, or at a certain point of intoxication.

This would mean that, if they hadn't agreed to it beforehand, someone who's sober and/or less intoxicated and taking advantage of their lack of filters to have sex would generally be assaulting them.

But it depends on the people and the situation. Much like most power dynamics, it's just not as simple as "someone has power over someone else, so there's no scenario they can consent".

Yes, you read that right, nobody told me or my parents (who as my legal next-of-kin were heavily involved and of course had to sign a bunch of consent stuff while I was unconscious) that they had straight up taken out my appendix during one of their surgeries, or other significant medical events that occured.

Now, I am very privileged in that I am not only literate, but I am medically literate. I work in healthcare and both my parents have achieved doctoral levels of higher education, as well as having multiple medical doctors in my extended family who I can call on if I have any questions. Since my stay was so long, I have a lot of notes, which are very dense and riddled with typos and abbreviations. But I am lucky in that I know how to read them and have resources in place to help me if I don't. But so many people don't, and it infuriates me.

So many people out there don't even know their own medical history because so many doctors and nurses do not communicate things to their patients properly. And that is dangerous! It's important to know your medical history so that you know your risk factors, especially in case another emergency occurs. I understand that healthcare workers by and large are overworked and understaffed but I think it should be a bare minimum that a patient is properly briefed about what procedures were done to them and what diagnoses they have before they are discharged.

It's not illegal for me (yet) since I'm an adult.

Trans Healthcare is completely banned for minors in Missouri. Medicare is no longer allowed to cover trans healthcare (including hormone therapy) for minors and adults. Even changing your gender marker requires "proof of gender reassignment".

I'm an adult so I can still get HRT. I went to an informed consent clinic near me to skip all the bullshit. I lucked out that it's also a low income health clinic and they have an on-site pharmacy. I just get my T from there for like $15 tops.