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Advice neededAdvice on entering the medical field
My medical program recently started (keeping what type vague for anonymity reasons).
I am seriously disturbed by what I see as the erasure of biological sex in my program. All forms I filled out for the program asked for gender. Genders that were included were male and female but we know male and female are sex based terms.
In my courses the professors (which include MDs and phds) have stated we must accept people's self identification. Almost all my professors say gender in the place of sex (they will apologize if they mention sex based terms).
While the professors have not stated this explicitly, I am sure this means medically treating said patients how they self identify. A TIF would be treated like they have the same BP as a male (among other things).
How is this not considered obvious medical malpractice. Females and males have different medical baselines and needs. Not discrimination, just pure science.
Advice because I'm not sure how to navigate this as I go through my med program and begin to treat patients.
Did the original post bring up that strange statistic that correlated a high concentration of pedophilia and registered sex offenders with Trekkies?
https://web.archive.org/web/20050428230110/http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-photo27apr27.story
I was trying to look for where that claim I just mentioned was sourced from and it seems to originate from a now-deleted article by the LA Times from 2005.. If anyone knows what I'm talking about and has more info about it, please let me know. Sorry for the weird tangent.