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by sophie » Fri Dec 06, 2019 9:11 am
Seriously, everyone is now afraid to assign gender to a person based on appearance. We got a "sensitivity" training where something like that is a reportable offense (which could result in fines or even firing), if the person referred to disagrees with their gender assignment. Scary stuff. We all now have to be careful to use words like "they" or "their" to refer to one person.
It's kind of funny that this is going on even while NIH is trying to push sex as a biological variable, e.g. you now have to replicate all experiments done with male mice with female mice. And, it's well known that there IS some gender specificity in risk factors to certain diseases, clinical course, response to treatments etc, so we are supposed to record gender in notes. Typically, we do this without asking patients because, well, it's kind of obvious. I wonder how long it will be before there's a misguided lawsuit or government regulation about this.