Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Or maybe its only about them...
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Are you a male or female
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Guitar's Cry
Disciple of Pan
The questions don't hurt you, but they may mean better healthcare for someone else. Answer honestly and be happy that your new healthcare provider is doing the best they can to accommodate everyone.
I don't understand what you see as the issue. All of the questions at the doctor's office focused on the two genders you say are God-endorsed.
You say "male and female he created them." Why wouldn't there be room in this for a spectrum of male and female?
Why wouldn't a non-binary person who is both male and female not fit into "male and female he created them"?
Without further information about what kind of doctor this is, I can only imagine it was a psychiatrist, and you were there to learn why you become irked by simple gender related questions.
Sorry, but it seems to me a very trivial thing to get irked over. It may speak to other issues regarding accepting others for who they are, especially when it comes to gender.
And then there's always the ever popular: Are you a whiner?
In any event, I would have expected you to calmly respond to any of these irksome questions with the equally irksome: "We Never Know."
ImmortalFlame
Woke gremlin
Oo, a solution! Preface all questions with "Are you likely to whine like a child about being asked simple questions about your personal identification?"
We could come up with a snappy name for this kind of questioning. Perhaps we could call them something like "trigger warnings"?
I would think this would be a HIPAA violation.
Simpler still, you could have just stayed at home.
I think that they should add that as a fourth question. I'll suggest it for your next visit.
Kind of a silly argument when it's clearly about me.
Audie
Veteran Member
Someone aeks me i think i will
say, "if you dont know I am not going to tell you."
Asking questions that have obvious answers is
current practice because in a small number of
cases, the answer is unexpected & medically
useful.
This is something I've discussed with health
care & public health workers I know. And yes,
even they question the extent to which questions
should be repeated.
Their work environment is full of dire risks to
patients if ever there's a mistake. Better to be
obsessively careful than not.
current practice because in a small number of
cases, the answer is unexpected & medically
useful.
This is something I've discussed with health
care & public health workers I know. And yes,
even they question the extent to which questions
should be repeated.
Their work environment is full of dire risks to
patients if ever there's a mistake. Better to be
obsessively careful than not.
This. I understand that some social and medical changes, such as the addition of these questions about gender identity and sex, may take getting used to (especially if one has experienced a previous status quo for decades), but it seems to me that the changes in this case are necessary because not everyone is cisgender, and that information is medically relevant in some cases.
Reminds me, I was at the clinic a few months back, and while filling out paperwork, one of the questions was to list any pronouns I might have. I responded I don't have any pronouns, but I do have adjectives; and my adjectives are "brilliant", and "handsome". Upon looking at my paperwork, the lady behind the counter acted as if I were trying to be a smart @@@ but I insisted if someone can have pronouns, why can't I have adjectives? She had no answer.
Perhaps, but I think many problems could be described as such in comparison to the status quo in countries that are even worse off. Even most of the "third world" could be said to have some "first-world problems" compared to the worst-run and most struggling states on the planet, like North Korea and the Congo.
In my part of the world, I would be asked to record my religion on most documents, including many medical ones (since religion is part of birth certificates and national IDs). Additionally, you can only choose one of three religions: Islam, Christianity, and Judaism.
I don't enjoy that, although I guess it's also arguable that it's a "first-world problem" compared to, say, poverty.
"If someone can have pronouns"? Do you mean custom pronouns? Because if we're talking about pronouns in general (rather than custom ones in specific), we obviously all have them. You even said "she" in your post to refer to her.
I'm not sure whether she was asking about custom pronouns (which are a topic of their own, in my opinion), but since some people are not the same gender as their sex might typically suggest, I don't see what the problem is with asking someone about pronouns (e.g., whether they use "they/them" rather than "he/him" or "she/her").
We Never Know
No Slack
Talk about triggered. Why be a **** in all your replies to me? Lmao
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The irony in this statement made me giggle.
Soandso
ᛋᛏᚨᚾᛞ ᛋᚢᚱᛖ
Life is full of minor inconveniences. What makes it a "first world problem" is how we react to them, not necessarily the inconvenience itself
Well it wouldn't have irked me, and as someone old enough to be stuck in their ways I will have to admit that some things I do will irk those younger having very different lives than when I was young. Such is progress or simply time passing, and I'm quite happy to see all those who are not simply self-designated male or female having their considerations taken into account.