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 …

  • WoodScientist@lemmy.world
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    Just put your hormonal sex. That is the most accurate sex you can use for any pharmacology purpose. If you’re hormonally female, you metabolize medications like any other woman, regardless of your genetics. Systems like this are built by ignorant fools who think that someone’s assigned sex at birth maps directly to their medical needs. They think being trans is just something that involves changing clothes or surgery. When in reality HRT rewires your body at the cellular level.

    • dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      Exactly, you would be surprised how many cis people really are confused about the medical and biological situation, they assume your chromosomes are more relevant for everything, when it’s mostly the hormones!

      The main exceptions I can think of are:

      • trans women who have prostates, though it’s debatable how much prostate cancer risk exists when living with estrogen dominance (and usually androgen suppression or absence)
      • trans men who can get pregnant

      Those still aren’t pharmacologically relevant, except maybe screening drugs that could harm a fetus?

      Would love for medicine to catch up and become more “trans and intersex sensitive” in its training and application (and let’s be real: its research), but that reality feels increasingly distant to me.