this is along with name, race and other demographic information
They don't have a gender field, and it really feels like they are just reducing sex and gender down to "you are what you were assigned at birth", and then hiding behind amorphous medical "reasons" as justification ....
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You're not wrong. That's the hamfisted part. Among the older generations, asking "if you fuck, can a creampie result in a baby?" is more offensive than "when you were born, what parts did you have?" because the latter keeps the jizz further away.
Source: I am old.
The medical forms here just ask if you are or could potentially be pregnant, because that's the actual relevant question.
lol, that's a whole lotta fuck, creampie, and jizz in a sentence for a supposedly fellow sensitive, old person 😆
I guess you're right - socially it's totally normal to infer pregnancy capacity from genitals (nevermind how insensitive this may be to women who struggle with fertility issues, or who choose to sterilize themselves), but when I go into an ER or hospital they don't ask me my assigned sex at birth, they just start running pregnancy tests on me, or they ask for my last period or if I could be pregnant.
The point being: they only ask assigned sex at birth when they can't look at you and determine that with their eyeballs, and just like how they can get it wrong when they quickly glance at your genitals as a baby and assign your sex, they also get it wrong when they see me and assume I was assigned female at birth - not because I'm not female or a woman, but because I have a medical history that is atypical for other women, and I'm an outlier when it comes to fertility.
Not that thinking in terms of most common cases is such a crime or anything, but when dealing with large enough populations it does mean you are going to run into exceptions like me, and so it's certainly better if a system like that has enough flexibility to account for those exceptions.
I said I was old; I didn't say I was sensitive. I just have my finger on the pulse of the aged.
And don't get me wrong, there's definitely a whole lot of active and open malice towards trans people. It's a good idea to consider these kind things with suspicion first, because your safety may be in question. Even with this comparatively benign incident, there's a safety aspect: if a trans person answers truthfully, well, that's on record somewhere now, isn't it? Who has or will gain access to that information, and what might they do with it?
Be careful. Make the decisions that keep you the safest. Don't burn up all your mental effort on plain outrage. You will need it for action.