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when i bought pokemon X i picked fennekin and squirtle okay

I hate when people complain about “oh health forms are stupid they want my biological sex instead of my gender!!!!” or “they only have male or female!!!”

Okay so I’m not an expert but it seems to me that if there were some kind of life threatening situation where they might need to know your biological sex they could pretty easily discern that without a form. Part of basic procedures like CPR involve removing an individuals pants, they usually have you strip naked before operating, hospital gowns are open in the back, etc. And also unless there has been an incident directly involving your genitals I don’t think there are so many differences between the health of men and women that it could “save your life” for them to know. Yes there are some diseases and health issues that are more common in men or women, but diagnosing an individual case does not have anything to do with them knowing your biological sex at that very second. If you have congestive heart failure, you have congestive heart failure regardless of what other working parts you have.

The biggest problem with this kind of thing is that there’s a difference between sex and gender, and both are spectrums, not just gender. Like, sure, maybe they need to know your chromosomal status- except saying ‘male’ and ‘female’ only accounts for XX and XY. If they really needed to know your sex chromosomes before they could perform surgery, for example, then they’d also want to know if you had XXY or XYY, for example. And in some situations your genes don’t even match up with how you look anyway. Some individuals with XY chromosomes do not produce or detect androgen as a foetus and they end up growing into a ‘biologically female’ body with a vagina but

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