(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) A student from Wake Forest University medical school posted a tweet saying she intentionally pricked someone for questioning her “she/her” pin, Western Journal reported.
A @wakeforestmed 4th year medical student says she abused a patient because he laughed at her pronoun pin. She has since deleted her account. pic.twitter.com/2m3DsjTFZx
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) March 29, 2022
The now deleted tweet from fourth-year medical student Kychelle Del Rosario read:
“I had a patient I was doing a blood draw on see my pronoun pin and loudly laugh to the staff, ‘She/Her? Well of course it is? What other pronouns even are there? It?’ I missed his vein so he had to get stuck twice”
She tweeted this in response to a thread by Shierlene Obuobi MD, who tweeted about “transphobia” in her line of work.
Obuobi is a Ghanaian-American physician and author, and she is firmly on the political left, according to Fox News,
“My badge has had she/her pronouns for a year,” Obuobi wrote on Twitter. “I’m cis, & I wear it to help my patients and colleagues who fall under the trans umbrella to feel a little more comfy. In the last few weeks, several cis patients have berated me for it.”
Many people responded with their own harrowing tales of “transphobia,” Del Rosario included.
Del Rosario has since deleted her Twitter account, and Wake Forest University has responded to the criticism:
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. This student’s tweet does not reflect how Wake Forest University School of Medicine treats patients and provides patient care. We are taking measures to address this with the student.
— Wake Forest School of Medicine (@wakeforestmed) March 29, 2022
“Thank you for bringing this to our attention. This student’s tweet does not reflect how Wake Forest University School of Medicine treats patients and provides patient care. We are taking measures to address this with the student.”
The university has not publicly released what consequences Del Rosario will be facing, if any.
