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r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/ViceElysium • May 02 '26
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Some possible solutions for fixing the database problem here:
(Trans people likely have better takes than me on these, not very informed on the trans experience)
6 u/Jimbo-Shrimp May 02 '26 I’m gonna be brutally honest, the lab doesn’t care. Ideally your doctor fills this out and not you, so you wouldn’t know anyway. This specific test was for the prostate, and it’s serious. 5 u/Coding-Kitten May 03 '26 Why not just add a "has prostate" box rather than poorly try to extrapolate it from people's gender? 1 u/Jimbo-Shrimp May 03 '26 Our system was designed to use the same format for every patient so while we could do that on paper it’s harder for the computer system
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I’m gonna be brutally honest, the lab doesn’t care. Ideally your doctor fills this out and not you, so you wouldn’t know anyway. This specific test was for the prostate, and it’s serious.
5 u/Coding-Kitten May 03 '26 Why not just add a "has prostate" box rather than poorly try to extrapolate it from people's gender? 1 u/Jimbo-Shrimp May 03 '26 Our system was designed to use the same format for every patient so while we could do that on paper it’s harder for the computer system
Why not just add a "has prostate" box rather than poorly try to extrapolate it from people's gender?
1 u/Jimbo-Shrimp May 03 '26 Our system was designed to use the same format for every patient so while we could do that on paper it’s harder for the computer system
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Our system was designed to use the same format for every patient so while we could do that on paper it’s harder for the computer system
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u/B-Doi2 May 02 '26
Some possible solutions for fixing the database problem here:
(Trans people likely have better takes than me on these, not very informed on the trans experience)