Comment on Why do we need legal genders at all?

• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Only in-so-far as medical regulation would require. Like if the hospital failed to check this crucial information and made a mistake because of it they should be held liable. Having it on your ID might also be important if you list yourself as an organ donor; not sure if that would matter but it might.

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  • neidu4@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I can think of a handful of ways of confirming someone’s biology without checking official documentation. After all, hospitals still check blood types and tissue types

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    • Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That takes time. You don’t want to get the wrong dose of fentanyl, but you’ll definitely want fentanyl if you’ve been hit by a car and broke some ribs.

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      • InputZero@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Okay but that argument kind of falls apart when you know that emergency medicine won’t, for example, give a patient a dose of fentanyl without having naloxone immediately on hand. I am not a paramedic but I have known a few and a few ER nurses and they are almost always working with more unknowns than knowns.

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      • jpreston1986@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        need to know weight for dosing, not genitals

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      • neidu4@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I can count your ribs faster than I can look up government documentation, and even that’s assuming you’ve already been identified.

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think the same for the donor marker in general. Can’t the hospital system keep that info? Why does it need to be on my ID?

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      • neidu4@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yup, that’s my point. I don’t think a government (should) need this.

        On that note, I learned from another commenter that in Germany you can have your gender deleted from their database.

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• loomi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Crime investigation purposes. The information on state ID was used s as a resource for crime fighting. Once DNA analysis became a thing, knowing male vs female was even more important.

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