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 …

  • 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.