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Wednesday, June 14th 2023
Wed, Jun 14th 2023

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ACCURATELY ASSESSING SEX-RELATED CHARACTERISTICS SAVES LIVES. CAN WE MAKE IT FAIR TO ALL HUMANS, WOMEN, MEN, TRANS AND INTER FOLKS? A NERDY IDEA. Sex-related characteristics are medically relevant; accurately assessing them saves lives. But neither assigned sex nor gender identity alone properly capture them. Is anyone else interested in designing a characteristic string instead, so all humans, esp. all women and gender diverse folks, get proper medical care? This idea started yesterday, when I had severe abdominal pain, and started googling. Eventually, I reached sites that listed various potential conditions. Some occur in all people (e.g., stomach ulcers), albeit often not with the same presentation and frequency; others have very specific sex-based requirements (e.g. overian cyst, or testicular torsion). Some webpages introduced ovary-related things as “In women, it can also be…” Well, I thought - I highly doubt my trans girlfriend has an ovarian cyst. But we are used to getting medical advice that does not fit for her, aren't we? (In retrospect, why did I think that was okay, just because it was so common?) Other sites, apparently wanting to prevent this, stated “we use female in this text to refer to people assigned female at birth”. I was happy that they had thought about this and cared, but… frankly, that does not work either. I was assigned female at birth; that means I was born, and a doctor visually inspected me, and declared “female”. And yet I most certainly do not have a fallopian tube pregnancy now, because I had my tubes surgerically removed, which also sterilised me. I’m as likely as the dude next door to have a fallopian tube pregnancy now. An inter person assigned female at birth may also be dead certain they do not have an ectopian pregnancy, because their visual inspection at birth actually misjudged their genes and organs quite a bit. I wondered what I would have liked the website writers to use instead. And the more I thought about it, I th
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