I made an entire comment about this but I’ll address 1 point here quickly: people like to forget that transition drastically changes your body in a way that only recording “birth sex” does not encapsulate. Both are absolutely medically relevant.
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cattywampas@lemmy.world 3 days agoTo be pedantic you’d want to know sex not gender for medical reasons.
TheMuffinMan@piefed.world 3 days ago
gastroglizzy@piefed.social 3 days ago
It’s very difficult to know what will/not be medically relevant in any given situation.
AskewLord@piefed.social 2 days ago
Yes, but poliitcally it’s convenient to argue that gender is oppressive, or essential or something.
What’s ironic to me is the ‘anti gender’ people are the one who are the most obsessed with it and go around policing every else’s gender identity and their language use about it.
Like, if you want to be liberated from gender, why don’t you liberate yourself first?
hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
You might want to know both in certain situations.