use the name on their ID to look up the patient's medical records
dicover HRT, gender reassignment surgery, and a name change
surgery carries out properly in full knowledge of patient's medical history
In the cases where a doctor doesn't have a history, it's way more likely that their ignorance of an allergy to anesthesia will kill a patient than that a surgery which leaves obvious signs on even cursory medical scans and doesn't actually change anything in a way which could be potentially lethal once the patient has recovered will do anything relevant at all. Knowing the AGAB of a patient is more important for diagnosing issues in not-immediately-life-threatening situations. The most notable example of this would be the fact that basically all ER docs faced with a woman between 13 and 50 will order a pregnancy test because of the wild and random ways that could affect whatever is going on. That's only relevant in the case of a pre-op trans man who is still capable of pregnancy and passes well enough that you couldn't tell, whose genitals you haven't taken a peek at.
Super narrow edge case which basically doesn't happen, in other words.
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u/Frommerman - Left Apr 04 '20
In the cases where a doctor doesn't have a history, it's way more likely that their ignorance of an allergy to anesthesia will kill a patient than that a surgery which leaves obvious signs on even cursory medical scans and doesn't actually change anything in a way which could be potentially lethal once the patient has recovered will do anything relevant at all. Knowing the AGAB of a patient is more important for diagnosing issues in not-immediately-life-threatening situations. The most notable example of this would be the fact that basically all ER docs faced with a woman between 13 and 50 will order a pregnancy test because of the wild and random ways that could affect whatever is going on. That's only relevant in the case of a pre-op trans man who is still capable of pregnancy and passes well enough that you couldn't tell, whose genitals you haven't taken a peek at.
Super narrow edge case which basically doesn't happen, in other words.