Obviously this would be very stupid of this person, but legitimate question (not trying to be inflammatory, honestly curious).
I sort of assumed a medical chart would explicitly include if someone was transgender/had transitioned, is that not the case? I guess the hysterectomy does that itself, but it feels like it would be something explicit to ensure the doctor doesn't overlook it when glancing at a chart? Because wouldn't that be potentially relevant to diagnosis/treatment? Obviously if you're like...there for a broken bone or at the dentist it's whatever, but if you were actually sick?
My state made it illegal to put people’s preferred pronouns or name in the medical chart. We also aren’t allowed to put our own pronouns in our email signature so my friends with androgynous names are just constantly being called the wrong pronouns in emails. Super fun to walk into the patient room and immediately look like an asshole by dead naming them because it didn’t mention that they were trans in the chart
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u/SofishticatedGuppy Jul 31 '26
Obviously this would be very stupid of this person, but legitimate question (not trying to be inflammatory, honestly curious).
I sort of assumed a medical chart would explicitly include if someone was transgender/had transitioned, is that not the case? I guess the hysterectomy does that itself, but it feels like it would be something explicit to ensure the doctor doesn't overlook it when glancing at a chart? Because wouldn't that be potentially relevant to diagnosis/treatment? Obviously if you're like...there for a broken bone or at the dentist it's whatever, but if you were actually sick?