Youth Guide

Leadership & wellness for all youth

Do You Really Have To Admit You’re Gay to Your Doctor

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As you begin accepting the fact that gay life is part of YOUR life, there are a lot of different questions that come up. However one of the top questions that you might be wondering right now is simple: who needs to know? If you’re not comfortable with coming out to everyone, that’s fine. In time, you’ll be more comfortable. You can come out and stand proud as a gay teen. But there are some people that you will need to come out to first, in order to protect your health.

One of the top people that you need to talk with before anyone else would definitely have to be a doctor. Your doctor will need to know about your sexual orientation for many reasons. Let’s cover a few of those reasons.

The biggest thing that you have to realize is that your doctor cannot give you proper health care if they don’t know anything about your lifestyle. The advice that they give someone that isn’t gay may be different than what they give for you. They may be interested in running more tests if you’re sexually active, because STDs can and still do happen in the gay community. You want to always make sure that you’re protected when you engage in sexual activity.

The doctor does need to know, and they also need to know how many partners you’ve had in the past, as well as any partner or partners that you’re having right now. These aren’t questions that are meant to embarrass you in any way shape or form.

You have to think about it from their perspective. The doctor has a job to do, and that job is to protect your health. To be honest, you are probably not the only gay teen that they know about.

If you haven’t come out to your parents, you don’t have to worry about the doctor telling your parents that you’re gay. As long as you are engaging in sexual activity with people your own age (to avoid any type of conflict with someone that is an adult when you’re not), you will not have to worry about your privacy being violated.

What is said between you and your doctor is actually protected, and your doctor can get in trouble for saying anything to anyone — including your parents. If it’s an issue, you may want to discuss this with your doctor as well. They will go out of their way to make sure that your parents don’t harm you just because they find out something different about you.

Everyone tends to come out in their own time. But coming out to your doctor is something that you need to do for your health — nothing more and nothing less than that!

The Importance of Good Health As a Gay Teen

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Welcome to life as a gay teen! If you’re been following along with many of the article son this site, you already know that we wish you nothing but the best of success in the days, weeks, months, and yes even years to come. So if you really want to take things to the next level you will need to start thinking about your health.

But why? Aren’t things going well for you right now? Well, yes. However, the future is always changing and you will need to make sure that you focus on your health for the long term.

If you don’t have good health, then you aren’t going to really have anything else. That’s something that applies to everyone, but it applies to gay youth even more. It’s much more likely for a gay teen to skip their physical than someone else, because they’re afraid that the doctor is going to out them to their parents. Of course, if your parents are perfectly okay with you being gay, that’s one thing. However, if you don’t have people that support you, being outed is probably one of your biggest fears.

Relax — the doctor is actually not going to reveal that information to your parents. It’s not something that puts you in danger, and it would just cause conflict. When you speak to your doctor, you’re protected by doctor-patient privilege — similar to when you’re speaking to a lawyer. If doctors were at liberty to speak freely about their patients, then they would end up never getting a patient to be honest with them.

Your health is important because you really can’t do anything else. If you want to enjoy your new gay lifestyle to the fullest, then good health is important.

Getting enough rest and avoiding stress is important. Yes, there might be some people in your life that really wish you didn’t come out to them, but the reality is this — who cares what other people think? The reality here is that life is very short and you have to make the most out of the life that you have instead of always hoping that things will be different.

You have to learn to be confident in yourself because no one is going to want your dreams more than you do. You just have to make sure that you reach out and handle things as they come instead of constantly worrying what people think. Stress is one of the leading causes of the classic diseases that many struggle with — you don’t want to go through that if you can help it.

Take care of you first and let the rest roll off your back! Good luck out there!