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2:48pm May 29, 2014

neurodiversitysci:

nimbusdx:

homestuckitten:

officialsouthpark:

i’m tired of having to misgender myself for paperwork

Actually, they’re asking what gender were you born with. This helps them to know what diseases and sicknesses you are most likely prone to get~! Some of these can be very lethal or serious, however, and so it is much better to tell them the information. It would be okay to write your preferred gender in a little note beside your answer, but please, please do tell them what you were born as!

I am concerned for everyone’s safety who does this u-u~<3

Thank you for listening, and I hope you consider this~~~! c: 

Thank you for pointing out this important safety information! It is very disconcerting to me when I see people saying these things about sex questions on health forms.

While honoring people’s preferred gender presentation is important, so is ensuring that people receive proper health care. For example, trans men may need access to gynecological care or trans women may need access to prostate cancer screenings.

Interesting. Perhaps it would be easier to answer the question if it asked for “sex assigned at birth,” or even just “sex” instead of “gender” since we’re talking about biological traits here?  A couple of extra words would make things clearer so why not use them.

Yeah it would be easier for me to answer things like that if they said something really obvious like “sex” or “biological sex” or something.

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