General trans community.
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All posts must be trans-related. Other queer-related posts go to c/lgbtq.
Don't post negative, depressing news articles about trans issues unless there is a call to action or a way to help.
Resources:
Best resource: https://github.com/cvyl/awesome-transgender Site with links to resources for just about anything.
Trevor Project: crisis mental health services for LGBTQ people, lots of helpful information and resources: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/
The Gender Dysphoria Bible: useful info on various aspects of gender dysphoria: https://genderdysphoria.fyi/en
StainedGlassWoman: Various useful essays on trans topics: https://stainedglasswoman.substack.com/
Trans resources: https://trans-resources.info/
[USA] Resources for trans people in the South: https://southernequality.org/resources/transinthesouth/#provider-map
[USA] Report discrimination: https://action.aclu.org/legal-intake/report-lgbtqhiv-discrimination
[USA] Keep track on trans legislation and news: https://www.erininthemorning.com/
[GERMANY] Bundesverband Trans: Find medical trans resources: https://www.bundesverband-trans.de/publikationen/leitfaden-fuer-behandlungssuchende/
[GERMANY] Trans DB: Insurance information (may be outdated): https://transdb.de/
[GERMANY] Deutsche Gesellschaft für Transidentität und Intersexualität: They have contact information for their advice centers and some general information for trans and intersex people. They also do activism: dgti.org
*this is a work in progress, and these resources are courtesy of users like you! if you have a resource that helped you out in your trans journey, comment below in the pinned post and I'll add here to pass it on
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 ....
when I'm getting a flu shot, my assigned sex at birth matters?
I guess my question to you is what are those differences, how does my assigned sex at birth impact my medical care, and why is it important for Walgreens to know my "assigned sex at birth" to schedule a flu shot?
EDIT: I should probably say up front, obviously I agree there are medical contexts in which knowing if you could be pregnant is relevant, for example (among others) - I don't mean to imply no differences exist, or that it's always unreasonable to ask about relevant medical information. I'm mostly interested in hearing what differences you think exist, and why you think it's justified for Walgreens to ask for assigned sex at birth based on those differences.
So I agree that pregnancy, cancer risks, etc. are all relevant, and even that you can make some reasonable inferences based on assigned sex at birth (ASAB), but you run into trouble when that's the only question that is asked.
For example, breast cancer is a risk that trans women face just like cis women, a biological fact that is ignored when only ASAB is considered ... Trans women also have far lower risks of prostate cancer than men, so cancer screening looks different in trans women than cis men (including even the way that a prostate would be accessed, in the case of post-op trans women).
Only asking for assigned sex at birth is a form of discrimination in several ways. For one, it doesn't allow someone to identify or disclose gender, they ask for race and other social characteristics but for gender the only field is assigned sex at birth.
This means a person's gender is inferred from their ASAB, making it clear discrimination against trans people who have a gender that isn't aligned with their assigned sex at birth, i.e. it's a prejudicial denial of trans identity.
It is also discriminatory against some intersex people who are (and were born) neither male nor female.
If biology masters in healthcare, then they should be asking questions about your biology, not a social category that everyone has been assigned based on quick glances at genitals and in complete defiance of the reality of biological sex.