Post by @Th4tGuyII@fedia.io

2026-11-06 19:49 UTC

Yeah, from working in a medical field - your sex can have a huge effect on the way your body interacts with certain medicines/drugs - and as such I find the trend of conflating Gender and Sex to be rather dangerous. And it's not just people that started doing it either. I've worked on multiple studies where data entry points have asked for Gender when they very much meant Sex. Again dangerous, because the answer to both is only the same for cis identifying people - and you really don't want to get that wrong. What you do with your Gender is nobody's business but your own. Express yourself however you please - but if a medical professional is asking your assigned sex at birth, consider they may be doing so to keep you safe. (For the record I'm not stating either as a binary, I'm aware intersex people exist, and do believe more should be done to accommodate them in medical settings which mostly currently act like they don't exist) Edit: Somehow the end of my second to last paragraph got replaced by a fullstop. Weird stuff

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@rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-11-06 20:00

The thing that impacts care more than sex is the hormones in the blood. If care is based on gender assignment rather than the hormones in their body, it can be equally disastrous.

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@HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 2026-11-06 20:35

Which is why we need to put M/W/N/(etc.) on driver’s licenses while medical professionals have access to M/F/I/(etc.) Even from the ostensible purpose of M/F on a driver’s license of efficient identification, it’s lacking. Then there’s the medical downsides you state - I’m sure you’re aware many medical professionals check IDs rather than sequencing someone’s sex chromosomes before performing emergency or other care.

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@LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works 2026-11-06 20:53

Except the drugs are originally always tested on men for efficacy, anyway so moot point. …yale.edu/…/a-drug-for-women-tested-on-men/ Yes you need to tell a doctor if you might have different organs than you apear to have, maybe there’s an ectopic pregnancy, but medications, yeah not so much.

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@Apytele@sh.itjust.works 2026-11-06 23:10

I have some antitrust issues with Epic (the EMR) but they have a literal checklist option where you literally just check which organs the pt had at birth then can specify whether or not they still have them. Super simple, cuts straight to the medically relevant info, and covers all areas from binary cis to intersex to pre, mid, and post transition. Best way I’ve ever seen it done.

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