What if we had like a database of medical information available to medical professionals so that they didn’t have to guess everything about us based on vague demographic info?
Well than I’m sure if they have time to go through your wallet or purse, they have time to open your pants. It’s an emergency after all, and one where presumably consent cannot be given (unconscious?)
But really that is such an extreme situation, why would a doctor need to know a persons gender in an emergency? Best to not accommodate such unlikely scenarios and focus on the more likely harm that can be prevented.
Medical dosages and drug interactions would be the main legit reason.
Except most doctors / medical institutions ignore modified dosages women should have anyway in most cases.
Other than that, I suppose knowing if you take hormonal therapies would be useful in very niche and rare cases, like after you’ve been put in a medically induced coma, but there’s so few trans people in the population + that’s such a rare emergency procedure that I doubt it even happens once a year. It’s also not a problem in most countries because they have more centralized medical records than the USA does.
I don’t think some people can handle the idea that I can respect them as a person regardless of any gender and still think it’s a good idea that they get the correct medical attention?
They literally can and do look into your wallet. Opening your pants could interfere with other operations or be unsafe or plain unhelpful (such as with a mutilation). Handing a wallet to an assistant is easier than playing a guessing game.
Knowing generally how your hormones/blood indicators should be balanced can help give an accurate diagnosis. Eg: you’re in a coma and a reading outside of the M/F band could catch an early organ failure.
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I don’t give two fucks what gender your brain tells you you are, but medical professionals might want to know what sex you were born as.
Why would they need to know that?
What if we had like a database of medical information available to medical professionals so that they didn’t have to guess everything about us based on vague demographic info?
Okay, so tell them if you want them to know.
Not always possible if it’s an emergency
Well than I’m sure if they have time to go through your wallet or purse, they have time to open your pants. It’s an emergency after all, and one where presumably consent cannot be given (unconscious?)
But really that is such an extreme situation, why would a doctor need to know a persons gender in an emergency? Best to not accommodate such unlikely scenarios and focus on the more likely harm that can be prevented.
Medical dosages and drug interactions would be the main legit reason.
Except most doctors / medical institutions ignore modified dosages women should have anyway in most cases.
Other than that, I suppose knowing if you take hormonal therapies would be useful in very niche and rare cases, like after you’ve been put in a medically induced coma, but there’s so few trans people in the population + that’s such a rare emergency procedure that I doubt it even happens once a year. It’s also not a problem in most countries because they have more centralized medical records than the USA does.
I don’t think some people can handle the idea that I can respect them as a person regardless of any gender and still think it’s a good idea that they get the correct medical attention?
They literally can and do look into your wallet. Opening your pants could interfere with other operations or be unsafe or plain unhelpful (such as with a mutilation). Handing a wallet to an assistant is easier than playing a guessing game.
Knowing generally how your hormones/blood indicators should be balanced can help give an accurate diagnosis. Eg: you’re in a coma and a reading outside of the M/F band could catch an early organ failure.
And what does that help if they were born male, are trans and now look female or vice versa?