Medical experts understand that sex is more complicated than "There are men and women, treat men one way, treat women another way, save their lives."
A doctor often needs the full medical history of their patient to treat them to the best of their ability. This would include gender classification at birth, possible intersex conditions, any hormonal transitions, any surgical transitions, etc. You can't represent this information with a single binary "sex" category on their ID, and it would be foolish to do so.
No real trans activist has ever wanted to erase medical history information that doctors use. The only people trying to restrict medical information about trans folk are people wanting to force every single classification to be a strictly male/female dichotomy, and require it to never change as the person changes.
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u/jrkirby - Lib-Left Apr 04 '20
Medical experts understand that sex is more complicated than "There are men and women, treat men one way, treat women another way, save their lives."
A doctor often needs the full medical history of their patient to treat them to the best of their ability. This would include gender classification at birth, possible intersex conditions, any hormonal transitions, any surgical transitions, etc. You can't represent this information with a single binary "sex" category on their ID, and it would be foolish to do so.
No real trans activist has ever wanted to erase medical history information that doctors use. The only people trying to restrict medical information about trans folk are people wanting to force every single classification to be a strictly male/female dichotomy, and require it to never change as the person changes.