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What an attention *****. Just check "no" and move on, if you intend to actually do a good thing.
Am I the only one who've filled out dozens of medical forms asking if I was pregnant? Or do you guys only attend medical facilities that stock two different forms - because that sounds incredibly efficient?
I fill them out for my adult son with developmental disabillities, and I always ignore the question on pregnancy or having a period. No one ever says a word.
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I wonder what he looks like.
His name's Leslie, so there's no help there in determining his gender.
Maybe he looks like Pat, and they don't want to put the additional burden on their staff to try to determine gender.
Keeps the staff from having to ask the extremely uncomfortable position of someone who appears to be pregnant. THAT'S awkward.
There should have been an N/A. It would be a silly question for me being a senior also.
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Why would anyone decline a simple, life-saving act to grandstand over a single checkbox? Does it break his bones or pick his pocket? It's 0.5 seconds of your life - check it, make a small chuckle, move on.
Garrulous old fool.
Why would an agency alienate anyone when it came to a life-saving act?
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Because before our age of social media, it would have been no more than another stupid question. Not some political statement.
Things have changed. There is no reason not to have an N/A, and totally crazy that the form was not produced like that.
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I know a man who's 24 years old, transgender, had a baby when he was 20 before transitioning. So, if he's at the eye doctor and they ask the question "have you ever been pregnant", "have you ever had a C section", "have you ever had gestational diabetes" etc., he'd answer yes.
Although looking at him, you'd NEVER guess that. NEVER.
It's a damn medical form. Just answer no. It's not like they're requiring him to pay for a pregnancy test.
Nope! N/A is the appropriate response. Transgender should be denoted TF/TM and handled in a "special" way due to its rarity.
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Why would a blood donor need to give their gender?
Why not? That might help with the transgender issue, but TF or TM to help explain something that might be uncomfortable when it came to pregnancy.
I would not answer that question for my son as it is absurd, or for myself a senior. N/A is the only correct response!
Why would a blood donor need to give their gender?
The normal range for hemoglobin, hematocrit, et. al., differ for males and females. If those blood values don't fall in the normal range (for your biological sex) you would not be accepted as a blood donor.
In most areas of medical science, biological sex matters greatly.
Because one person out of every 100,000 has gender dysphoria, now we must all act like we are all somewhere on that spectrum.
As a man in my 60s, I am offended by this turn of events.
No, not all of 'us'. But the medical community has to take in all comers and cover all bases as far as commonly known and even potentially rare related medical risks.
No, not all of 'us'. But the medical community has to take in all comers and cover all bases as far as commonly known and even potentially rare related medical risks.
How many pregnant 60 year old men has the medical community ever encountered ?
i understand this man's choice to not donate blood due to being ridiculously asked if he, a 65 year old man, was pregnant.
I stopped donating to a local charity because the director of the charity put her preferred pronouns, she/her, in her thank you email to me. sad because i had given to them for years, but the only way to fight against gender woke agendas in organizations is to not financially support the organizations.
i understand this man's choice to not donate blood due to being ridiculously asked if he, a 65 year old man, was pregnant.
I stopped donating to a local charity because the director of the charity put her preferred pronouns, she/her, in her thank you email to me. sad because i had given to them for years, but the only way to fight against gender woke agendas in organizations is to not financially support the organizations.
Did you at least send her back a note explaining why you weren't goin gto give again? If you didn't, your action will have zero impact.
Did you at least send her back a note explaining why you weren't goin gto give again? If you didn't, your action will have zero impact.
yes, i did tell she/her. she/her continues to write and ask for money every once in a while, but i ignore the notes. i now donate those funds to another organization.
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