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This is patently untrue in some domains that could be life-impacting, particularly in healthcare/medicine where differences in gender matters for treatment. If

by Nadya 7y ago

This is patently untrue in some domains that could be life-impacting, particularly in healthcare/medicine where differences in gender matters for treatment. If a trans-man is given medicine in doses as a man, and not a woman, they have a much higher risk of overdosing because of differences in how the body metabolizes drugs for each gender [0] [1]. It isn't transphobic to identify them as a woman and give them the proper dosage for their gender. I'd prefer to be given the correct amount of medicine than to pretend there aren't important gender differences and that my actual gender and the gender I would prefer to identify and portray myself as differs [2]. Then you get into the mess of trans-women competing (and usually one-sidingly dominating) in women's sports because lo' and behold there are still gender differences between men and women regardless of how they choose to identify. I'm becoming accustomed to being told how I should think. Must be my internalized transphobia speaking for me though and not that political correctness is going to cost someone their life one day and that that person could be me. [0] https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/28/the-drug-dose-gender-gap/ https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/28/the-drug-dose-gend... [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=lindsey%20w%2C%20sex%2C%20drug https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=lindsey%20w%2C%20se... [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12648189 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12648189

minikites 7y ago
>This is patently untrue in some domains that could be life-impacting, particularly in healthcare/medicine where differences in gender matters for treatment. https://www.bustle.com/articles/144447-what-is-concern-trolling-watch-out-for-this-subtle-form-of-shaming https://www.bustle.com/articles/144447-what-is-concern-troll...
fwip 7y ago
It's important for doctors to know your medical history, that's obviously true. Do you know how trans people on HRT respond to Ambien, as your first link brings up? I sure don't. Depends on why the drug works differently. If you're scared that you'll die because your doctor thinks you're cis, tell them you're trans. That doesn't mean you have to tell your doctor "I'm really a man, despite being a trans woman, and it's definitely important for you to store an M in your records because you might suddenly forget that I'm trans and also I'm sure my reaction to medicine is the same as a cis man's." Just be an adult and talk with your doctor honestly.
- Nadya 7y ago
  >If you're scared that you'll die because your doctor thinks you're cis, tell them you're trans. I'm more scared that my doctor will know I'm trans but not give me proper treatment as a result of being scared of losing their career to backlash from the politically correct. It's a far more realistic fear than my doctor not knowing my gender and it isn't something that would be brought up because it is a taboo to ask someone their "real gender". I'm happy to expand on this if necessary, but this fear of social backlash has already caused problems in other fields of work such as policing certain minority groups in the U.K. It isn't too large a stretch to see it impacting healthcare. This is all a bit besides the point though. The point is there are many physiological differences between trans-women and women and that trying to conflate the two as being equal actively harms both groups. It's a social feel-good statement said by people who's identity is more important to them than reality and any of the negative externalities caused when adhering to their view of the world. As far as I am concerned, letting trans-women compete in any physical sport against cis-women is harmful to women and the concept of women's sports. There are biological reasons many sports are segregated by gender. I don't care if this hurts any feelings because it's reality and it is harmful to people to ignore reality just to avoid hurting some feelings.
  - fwip 7y ago
    Hang on: your doctor knows you're trans, but they don't know your birth gender, and you think they're too scared to ask, and that you'll get a slightly wrong dose and then you'll die.

by Nadya 7y ago

minikites 7y ago

>This is patently untrue in some domains that could be life-impacting, particularly in healthcare/medicine where differences in gender matters for treatment. https://www.bustle.com/articles/144447-what-is-concern-trolling-watch-out-for-this-subtle-form-of-shaming https://www.bustle.com/articles/144447-what-is-concern-troll...

fwip 7y ago

It's important for doctors to know your medical history, that's obviously true. Do you know how trans people on HRT respond to Ambien, as your first link brings up? I sure don't. Depends on why the drug works differently. If you're scared that you'll die because your doctor thinks you're cis, tell them you're trans. That doesn't mean you have to tell your doctor "I'm really a man, despite being a trans woman, and it's definitely important for you to store an M in your records because you might suddenly forget that I'm trans and also I'm sure my reaction to medicine is the same as a cis man's." Just be an adult and talk with your doctor honestly.

Nadya 7y ago
>If you're scared that you'll die because your doctor thinks you're cis, tell them you're trans. I'm more scared that my doctor will know I'm trans but not give me proper treatment as a result of being scared of losing their career to backlash from the politically correct. It's a far more realistic fear than my doctor not knowing my gender and it isn't something that would be brought up because it is a taboo to ask someone their "real gender". I'm happy to expand on this if necessary, but this fear of social backlash has already caused problems in other fields of work such as policing certain minority groups in the U.K. It isn't too large a stretch to see it impacting healthcare. This is all a bit besides the point though. The point is there are many physiological differences between trans-women and women and that trying to conflate the two as being equal actively harms both groups. It's a social feel-good statement said by people who's identity is more important to them than reality and any of the negative externalities caused when adhering to their view of the world. As far as I am concerned, letting trans-women compete in any physical sport against cis-women is harmful to women and the concept of women's sports. There are biological reasons many sports are segregated by gender. I don't care if this hurts any feelings because it's reality and it is harmful to people to ignore reality just to avoid hurting some feelings.
- fwip 7y ago
  Hang on: your doctor knows you're trans, but they don't know your birth gender, and you think they're too scared to ask, and that you'll get a slightly wrong dose and then you'll die.