this is along with name, race and other demographic information
They don’t have a gender field, and it really feels like they are just reducing sex and gender down to “you are what you were assigned at birth”, and then hiding behind amorphous medical “reasons” as justification …
So replace it with a checkbox that says “I can get pregnant”
There are plenty of cis women who can’t
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Medication does not care about your sex. Dosages tend to be smaller for women because of a smaller body size, but to prescribe a dose based on assigned sex is medically irresponsible because an individual could be any size at all. Assigned sex matters most for things like screening various body parts for cancer.
Besides which, the medical doctor is the one who needs that kind of information to help you make medical decisions. The pharmacist isn’t going to accidentally murder someone because they gave girl statins to a boy.
You’re being reductive. Just because a trans woman and a cis woman have different needs doesn’t mean that a trans woman and a cis man have the same needs. Similar with pre-op vs post-op, and trans vs intersex. You know who generally handles those intricacies? Your doctor. Walgreens generally isn’t handing out prescriptions. They don’t need your medical chart, that’s for your doctor to deal with. It’s especially not needed for a flu shot like OP got.
Take bloodwork as an example. I’m a trans woman. Shitty endocrinologists send in my blood work order as male, but when my levels are compared to typical male ranges, literally everything is a red flag. It’s useless. When compared to female ranges however , a red flag indicates that there’s actually a problem. As another example, cis men have never had to go to a gynecologist.
Pregnancy can have some pretty serious interactions with certain drugs, both of which are quite common, which is why it stands out.
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Please stop calling us “males” and “females”
not that walgreens actually needs to know this for me to get a flu shot 🙄
but yeah, it would be nice if in medical contexts they just marked down what is relevant, e.g. presence or absence of a prostate, presence or absence of a uterus, capacity to become pregnant, etc.
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