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> “Moreover, the patient is left-handed. This makes things more complicated […] There’s something bizarrely amusing about this. I’m now picturing a surgeon say
by chrismorgan 4y ago
> “Moreover, the patient is left-handed. This makes things more complicated […]
There’s something bizarrely amusing about this. I’m now picturing a surgeon saying, “I’m sorry, I can’t operate on you because you’re left-handed.”
I wonder if discrimination based on handedness is unlawful anywhere. Under Australia’s Fair Work Act (for employment) and Equal Opportunity Act (for public life), you’d have to classify it in as a disability to get it covered, and I don’t know whether that’d be allowed by a judge or jury or whatever (to say nothing of sinister persons refusing to consider it a disability).
- jlg23 4y ago> I wonder if discrimination based on handedness is unlawful anywhere. Most probably. But I think judges would agree that this is a "discrimination" not in the social or political sense but as a rather scientific method to determine whether a procedure is suitable/beneficial/at least not harmful. If not, sign me up to sue all gynecologists because they refuse to treat my (a man) ovaries....
- yellowapple 4y agoI mean, if you do have ovaries, and a gynecologist refused to treat them, then that seems like a bad thing. Probably a relevant concern for FtM trans folks.