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[–]motionlessoracle 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

For those who don't click the link and read: it's about TIFs who aren't receiving reminders to get a screening. It's not about TIMs.

If any "insanity" must stop, it is in having one single index of a person's birth sex. Doctor's offices need to be asking "what was your birth sex?" and keeping that on file, then using that to generate reminders for smear tests. That way, no matter how many legal fictions are put on passports, the truth exists.

[–]kardamom 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

birth sex isn't really relevant here. relevant is having a cervix, and some women don't have a cervix anymore and therefore don't need these reminders anymore

[–]motionlessoracle 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'd imagine that not all TIFs immediately get a hysterectomy. The ones who haven't should probably receive reminders for smear tests until they opt out of them. The system as described is opt out only, meaning women without a cervix can stop receiving the reminders, but those flagged as "men" with a cervix are never sent reminders at all.

I don't believe the gender nonsense, mind you. I just think that if hospitals are going to permit people to register as their genderfeels and not their birth sex, they need to be prepared to offer proper health care regardless.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Doesn't work in Canada. The provincial government is responsible for sending reminders for Pap tests, mammograms and colon cancer screening. So women who call themselves men will not get reminders for Paps and mammograms, and men who call themselves women will get those reminders. And clinics will be so confused. And cancers will get missed and women will die.