Honestly, if your motivation is to avoid child sex abuse, you'd be best off with a female doctor for a child of either gender. Not that women don't ever abuse children ... but it's a lot less common.
By the time they're around puberty, I think most kids would prefer a doctor of their own gender for modesty reasons. I definitely would never see a male doctor for anything that required me to get naked! It just feels weird.
(Btw, really weird was when my ectopic was diagnosed ... a male u/s tech using the vaginal ultrasound on me, and since it was a Sunday, he'd been called in to work and was still in T-shirt and jeans. That was odd.)
By the time they're around puberty, I think most kids would prefer a doctor of their own gender for modesty reasons. I definitely would never see a male doctor for anything that required me to get naked! It just feels weird.
(Btw, really weird was when my ectopic was diagnosed ... a male u/s tech using the vaginal ultrasound on me, and since it was a Sunday, he'd been called in to work and was still in T-shirt and jeans. That was odd.)