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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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    Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    And why would you want to add an additional unknown factor again? Because that’s what you’d be doing by removing sex from the basic information card.
    
    Don’t see how increasing the amount of times naloxone is given is beneficial here.
    
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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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    Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    My apologies, I didn’t know you were such a slow reader.
    
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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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