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I just do not like being called a bad provider like some have done on this thread just because I think that knowing the birth gender of my patient is important.

Like to sugges your birth organs and hormones have nothing to do with patient care is ludicrous to suggest.

I can't tell you how important it is to arriving to a 911 call and helping someone figure out if their medical complaint is potentially fatal or not. Signs and symptoms are so different from men to women.

Like sure you have some points. But physiologically you are your original gender and a lot of your physiology will not change with your changed gender assignment.

Signs and symptoms and various disease processes will still apply according to your xy or xx chromosomes. Women and men are just different in certain ways that affect how we treat patients.

Edit: if the ID were to be more of use they would indicate origin gender and the new one. Would give us an idea if you menstruate, or what hormones are affecting your body.

No I mean like men and women are different like medically and surgery and hormones will not change a lot of the differences especially in terms of signs and symptoms

No it means you can have ectopic pregnancy, you can menstruate potentially altering your RBC count. Women have higher instance of thyroid storm, myxedema coma. Ovarian cysts, etc. Etc. Etc. I could go on and on.

Women physiologically present differently than men when considering signs and symptoms from heart attacks to dissecting aortic aneurysms.

Women in general are very different from men and you not understanding that is fine but take a step back and ponder over the fact that you might not know what you are talking about.

I'm going to check the license and when I give report I am going to call in your age and gender if it's not already obvious to me.

Idk why that's hard to understand.

Will me not being sure of your bits keep me from providing standard of care? No.

But it's fucking ridiculous to have the system acknowledge such a thing that goes AGAINST what identification is intended for. Doctors absolutely will need to know your sex for the best standard of care.

Sorry it triggers you.

What a utterly stupid thing to even have on the card. Just do away with gender if you want to put a mystery box as a option.

It does me no good as a first responder and as a healthcare worker.

ID is specifically designed to help identify who and what a person is. This flies in the face of that purpose and negates its ability to be useful. People really are just this stupid.

Edit: women have different organs, hormones, vital sign normals, different lab values, pregnancy in general and the various reproductive conditions that can be missed and be deadly. I can go on and on as to why it's important for officials to know the xx or xy status of a person strictly for medical and legal reasons.

Yes. Sex is very relevant to everything EMS does.

Will it make or break a patients outcome? Mostly no.

But it's fucking ridiculous that I would be forced to guess what type of organs and hormones a person would latently have because of this nonsense.

Signs and symptoms for various ailments differ from male to female.

Edit: apparently people think sex isn't important for working up a differential on a medical patient.

As a medical professional it is very important.