In the almost certainly misplaced hope that it will do some good, I’m going to explain why your medical thing needs to NOT DO THIS.
Your hope, like your brain, is indeed misplaced.
So there are deferral reasons. The first is, WHY ARE YOU ASKING THIS? Most people thinking about trans people think about us very early in transition.
They are asking because
people like you lie about their sex, or are deluded enough to believe that by taking wrong-sex hormones, they become the other sex.
But when politicians aren’t trying to kill us, we live YEARS beyond that.
Politicians are bending over backwards and destroying the fabric of society to accommodate your whims.
And as we keep saying, trans women are women.
Trans women are men.
Pretty much nothing medical depends on the fact that I have a Y chromosome.
Nobody asked if you had a Y chromosome. They asked if you were identified as male at birth. The reason the NHS asked this is because people are lying about their sex, like you are, and NHS seems to think that sex, in fact, is important to medical care.
What IS important is that I have an oestrogen dominated HPG axis endocrine system.
Doctors ask what medications you are on. Unless you lie about it--which you've demonstrated and bragged about doing--you will list your wrong-sex hormones on your medication list. They will then know what is in your endocrine system.
And THAT is almost certainly what you are asking. Where men and women have different reference ranges, I _promise_ I’m going to test female
They do ask that. That's why every time I complete a new GP intake form, or go to hospital, I am asked what medications I am using. Do you lie also about what medications you are on?
“But what about gynaecology, Sarah?”
Got a vagina. Next.
Sir, you do not.
“They might need to know about breast cancer!”
Already discussed oestrogen dominated HPG axis. Next?
Did you lie about what medications you are on?
“You have a prostate!”
And cis female levels of testosterone. It’s not gonna go cancer on me. It’s just my G spot.
Did you lie about what medications you are on?
“It needs to know if you might get pregnant!”
Plenty of cis women can’t. Also I’m fifty sodding one years old.
So...because some women cannot get pregnant, it makes no sense to ask people who belong to the class that can get pregnant if they belong to the class that can get pregnant?
You seeing the point here? “So we can better understand your body”.
YOU WILL NOT UNDERSTAND MY BODY IF YOU THINK IT WORKS LIKE A MALE ONE. IT DOESN’T
They did not say your body 'works' like a male body. They asked if it was a male body.
Did you lie about what medications you are on?
USE YOUR WORDS. ASK WHAT YOU ACTUALLY WANT TO KNOW.
Did you lie about what medications you are on?
Did you lie about what medications you are on?
Ok, that’s the first reason. Now for the other one.
This question is OFFENSIVELY RUDE.
It is not. Next.
Long term transitioned women, as well as others, are never going to identify ourselves as “male”. Not if we’re well adjusted enough to come to terms with our trauma anyway.
Yes, we
been known that you will lie.
Trans people basically as a group have something akin to (or is exactly, I’m not a psychologist) CPTSD from gender dysphoria.
This is literally a trauma trigger.
There are some trans women who say they are “male”. When I’ve encountered them they are almost exclusively, to a woman, POISONED by internalised transmisogyny. They managed to transition but their trauma has frequently utterly fucked them, leaving them in a spiral of self hate.
They tend to be TERF adjacent, call themselves “autogynephiles” (a made up disease with a main symptom of “woman enjoying sex”), and so on.
Those of us who’ve developed a healthier relationship with our past are very unlikely to answer “male” to any question like this.
Yes, we
been known that you will lie.
We have too much self respect to poke ourselves straight in the trauma like that.
Which means that we will, from your point of view, “lie”
A lie is a counterfactual statement uttered by somebody who knows it is counterfactual and with the intent to deceive others.
You are lying.
(Trans women are women. It’s not a lie. Keep saying that until you get it, or you will never understand us)
I do not believe in the tenets of your religion.
So you’re collecting bad data. You see what I did in the original screenshot. I simply “lied”.
We know.
“You told us you’re on oestrogen only HRT. Why is that?”
So then you’re presenting me with a choice. Fess up or double down.
Yes. You can choose to stop lying.
Double down: “I had a radical hysterectomy in 2007”. I HAVE used that line but rarely. It’s dangerous. “Why?” The rabbit hole gets deeper.
Fess up: “I’m a post op transsexual person”
“So why did you say female at birth”
“Because whenever I or others I know answer male we have received inappropriate care that has, at times, bordered on sexual assault”
One lie doth tread upon the other's heels, so quickly they follow.
I recently said to a specialist’s face, “we don’t tell emergency responders that we’re trans. It isn’t safe”. She physically recoiled at that.
WE ARE GOING TO LIE TO YOU AND YOU ARE MAKING US DO IT.
The first seven words in the statement are true.
Want to know if I’m transgender?
If I were responsible for medical decisions about you, yes, I would want to know.
Demonstrate that you can be trusted with the answer (and asking stupid questions, like “what is your biological sex/sex at birth” puts a big tick in the “not trustworthy” box), and ask:
“Are you transgender? If yes, please give details”
Not really that hard, is it?
Why are you intentionally throwing all the 100% stealth transgenders that totally exist under the bus, transphobe?