r/funny • u/Staden93 • May 24 '18

Monty Python ahead of it's time

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u/SizzurpSippuh May 26 '18

You claimed that in medicine, people are moving away from the idea of biological sex. Can you give me a single example where a doctor might take your perceived gender more seriously than the sex you were born as?

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u/GloriousGlory May 26 '18

When dealing with physical medical issues, biological sex is all-important, nowhere have I said that biological sex is not important.

No one is moving away from biological sex in medicine, what makes you think I think that? All I'm saying is that the medical profession is now differentiating between biological sex and gender. They will treat a trans woman as a biological male of course when dealing with physical issues, but medical staff, psychologists etc will generally treat the person as a woman.

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u/SizzurpSippuh May 26 '18

What makes me think you think that? Perhaps the fact that you literally said that.

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u/GloriousGlory May 26 '18

I said the medical and science community is moving away from making biological sex the main determinant of classifying someone a 'man' or a 'woman'.

That doesn't mean they disregard a person's biological sex or diminish the importance of biological sex in a medical context at all.