Sex designations on birth certificates offer no clinical utility, and they can be harmful for intersex and transgender people. Moving such designations below the line of demarcation would not compromise the birth certificate’s public health function but could avoid harm.
— NEJM (@NEJM) December 17, 2020
It turns out that an MD can also be a bullshit credential that is used to push scientifically illiterate, ideologically driven horseshit.
Oh no, Harm! Whatever shall we do?!
What a bunch of unfathomable pansies.
“sex designations offer no clinical utility…”
Now I am only a lowly mid-level, in Flyover country at that, but aren’t prostate cancers particularly rare in genetic females? Ovarian and uterine cancers in genetic makes?
And so forth.
Sigh. NEJM looks at The Lancet, and says, “Hold my beer!”
How about this scenario: An unknown body is found, the body is physically female and approximately 5 yrs old, as part of trying to identify the body you research birth certificates from four to six years ago. Do you include missing males in your investigation just to avoid offending transgender people.
I thought MDs were supposed to be clear thinking, science-based people?
Let’s transform the world for a tiny fraction of 1% of people that might – might – be inconvenienced.
The way I look at it, most MDs (and lawyers) are tradesmen. They invest a substantial chunk of time and effort into learning a skill, then apply that skill afterwards. Plumbers and truckers and airline pilots do this too. There are differences of degree in the amount of time and skill needed, but the job is that way: a repeated application of learned knowledge.
There are those who do research to expand the bounds of knowledge in the field; those people are scientists. Some MDs do this, but they are a minority, I believe a rather small one.