I thought nothing could be more disheartening than a Supreme Court Justice using invented transpeak to deny the existence of women, and expressing consternation that “we are now looking at the definition of a girl, and we're saying only people who were girl-assigned-at-birth qualify." (Bang forehead on wall.
ive repeatedly complained to my health care providers about assigning a ‘gender identity’ to me. i wound up creating a whole document where i state i have “no gender identity; my sex is female” and that sex not ‘gender’ is material to my healthcare. i also shared a printout of the conference of bishops document last month with my doctor at a catholic hospital about how the bishops (or maybe cardinals, i’m an atheist and dont know all their hierarchy) are now outlawing ‘gender’ affirmation at their hospitals. i went for some imaging earlier this week and looked over the paperwork from it last night. suddenly (since last month) i see my sex is now being listed as “Person”🙄 but at least the “gender identity” field disappeared. i’ll have to have another go at getting my sex corrected next time. between this shit and ai i’m exhausted just fighting for reality
It's rather shocking to discover how quickly and universally women have been erased as a sex class. And more horrifying, that you're considered a bit of a pill if you politely correct their casually done gross human rights violation
You are not alone! And kudos on kicking the unscientific, non-medical concept and term "gender identity" out of your medical records and other peoples.
I have been objecting to my health care organizations' use and inclusion of "gender identity" and "sex assigned at birth" in my medical records since 2024. I have treated both as errors in my medical record and asked for corrections. A complicating factor is that they all use "MyChart," (an all-purpose medical platform provided by a company called Epic), to store patient data, among other things.
Both organizations - Providence Health & Services, Oregon & S.W. Washington and the Portland Clinic - have refused to drop "assigned at birth" and "gender identity", though for different reasons.
Providence, which is by far the larger of the two, claimed to have no say in what personal information appears on MyChart and suggested I contact MyChart directly. That would have been a fool's errand, because that isn't how third-party IT arrangements work. The customer - here, Providence - tells the vendor what data to collect, and it has the right to modify that through the vendor's change management process.
The Portland Clinic, on the other hand, came right out with a full-throated defense of gender identity ideology.
Speaking of religion, both organizations allow patients to select "none" for religion, but they don't have the same respect for sex realists when it comes to gender identity. The best I could do was select "chose not to disclose." That's not acceptable since it implies that I have a gender identity. I don't. I don't "identify" as male. I am male. The correct choice there, as in the category of religion, would be "none."
I have made no progress and have put the project aside temporarily. However, the category of "sex" did disappear from MyChart. When I asked for an explanation and where I could find it, the MyChart people told me that information was now held by my doctors' offices. That sounds fishy to me.
When having reverse shoulder replacement surgery last year, I had to check a box for my "gender." Fortunately, it was a paper form and so I crossed out gender and wrote in "Sex" before checking male.
I have the same MyChart issues which ask for gender identity, sexual orientation, sex assigned at birth, and legal sex. I leave GI and sex assigned at birth blank. Such BS.
Sometimes during examinations, I tilt my head to try and confuse the medical staff. ;)
The very least people can do is communicate with the MyChart help team through MyChart's message system, tell them their medical record is incorrect because they don't have a gender identity and their biological sex was recognized at birth not assigned at birth, and demand corrections.
i sent you a message about epic/mychart and the rest so as not to muck up sarah’s thread. but yes I know all about mychart! it is another root of this malignant ideology
They need a coaching guide to help coaches include gender nonconforming males to play on male teams. The boys teams need to deal with this, not the girls teams.
100%!!! You have to wonder why zero dollars and zero effort over the past 15 years or so have ever been put toward this very fair, inclusive, scientifically sound idea
Exactly! Lying to boys and "affirming" their confusion will never improve their lives. Gender ideology is harmful to everyone but particularly girls. It's a massive lose. and so depressing that soooo much time and resources are being spent on enforcing this crime against humanity
Another great article! UC Berkeley started a project out of the Women's Health Initiative collecting data on "female" athletes who have been underserved in examination of sports related injuries, etc. They failed to identify what "female" meant. If we go by the history of Cal that would certainly mean males who pretend to be female. I wrote to them and pleaded with them that if they chose to test females, they should also perform cheek swabs to identify XX. By all means collect data on XY or any chromosome abnormality athletes, but isolate that data away from XX so that your study, and thus recommendations, are pure. No response.
Well done. They are also trying to protect the sensitive feelings of girls who call themselves non-binary and can’t bear to face the fact that they have female bodies. So I hear from coaches who have to tiptoe thru this minefield-including requests from players not to use the word women, girls, ladies. I agree that male intrusion masquerading as inclusion is a greater harm, but gender ideology overall is confusing and hurting these should-be-proudly female teams.
Yes, the erasure of the word girl in the course on menstrual health, and substitution with athlete or person is meant to protect females who are triggered when faced with the fact of their female sex (also every minute of every day, for the love of god), and also not offend male athletes/people who are never going to have these body parts or experience these female things, thus proving every second of every day that no matter how hard we all play along, sex remains unchanged and this quasi religious belief continues to break everything it touches
See above commenter—why haven't these organizations put money and resources into training coaches of boys' teams to accept and celebrate gender nonconforming boys into boys' sports?
It's an excellent question. I think because these organizations are deeply invested in the idea that a man or boy's sense of being a woman or a girl is more important than reality.
To support gender nonconforming boys into boys' sports would require acknowledging that all the children and adults who've been promised they could live as the opposite sex were lied to. Why would they want to admit to medical malpractice and great societal harm in dismantling women's rights?
Much easier for these government-funded organizations to tell women and girls to be kind and shame/threaten us with sanctions if we refuse.
Sarah, Thank you for another excellent article. So painful to read---but I forced myself to get to the end. I am so sick of this erasure of girls and women. And I have no excuse for my profession--the medical profession---sex is critically important in medicine. Different diseases impact females differently than males---there are physiological / biological differences. Heart disease is an easy one: women are more likely to the small blood vessel disease in their hearts and present with "non-classic" symptoms of a heart attack. Women post-menopause develop knee osteoarthritis at a rate much higher than men. Erasing sex means we limit our ability to research and understand sex differences in disease---and women will suffer.
ive repeatedly complained to my health care providers about assigning a ‘gender identity’ to me. i wound up creating a whole document where i state i have “no gender identity; my sex is female” and that sex not ‘gender’ is material to my healthcare. i also shared a printout of the conference of bishops document last month with my doctor at a catholic hospital about how the bishops (or maybe cardinals, i’m an atheist and dont know all their hierarchy) are now outlawing ‘gender’ affirmation at their hospitals. i went for some imaging earlier this week and looked over the paperwork from it last night. suddenly (since last month) i see my sex is now being listed as “Person”🙄 but at least the “gender identity” field disappeared. i’ll have to have another go at getting my sex corrected next time. between this shit and ai i’m exhausted just fighting for reality
It's rather shocking to discover how quickly and universally women have been erased as a sex class. And more horrifying, that you're considered a bit of a pill if you politely correct their casually done gross human rights violation
You are not alone! And kudos on kicking the unscientific, non-medical concept and term "gender identity" out of your medical records and other peoples.
I have been objecting to my health care organizations' use and inclusion of "gender identity" and "sex assigned at birth" in my medical records since 2024. I have treated both as errors in my medical record and asked for corrections. A complicating factor is that they all use "MyChart," (an all-purpose medical platform provided by a company called Epic), to store patient data, among other things.
Both organizations - Providence Health & Services, Oregon & S.W. Washington and the Portland Clinic - have refused to drop "assigned at birth" and "gender identity", though for different reasons.
Providence, which is by far the larger of the two, claimed to have no say in what personal information appears on MyChart and suggested I contact MyChart directly. That would have been a fool's errand, because that isn't how third-party IT arrangements work. The customer - here, Providence - tells the vendor what data to collect, and it has the right to modify that through the vendor's change management process.
The Portland Clinic, on the other hand, came right out with a full-throated defense of gender identity ideology.
Speaking of religion, both organizations allow patients to select "none" for religion, but they don't have the same respect for sex realists when it comes to gender identity. The best I could do was select "chose not to disclose." That's not acceptable since it implies that I have a gender identity. I don't. I don't "identify" as male. I am male. The correct choice there, as in the category of religion, would be "none."
I have made no progress and have put the project aside temporarily. However, the category of "sex" did disappear from MyChart. When I asked for an explanation and where I could find it, the MyChart people told me that information was now held by my doctors' offices. That sounds fishy to me.
When having reverse shoulder replacement surgery last year, I had to check a box for my "gender." Fortunately, it was a paper form and so I crossed out gender and wrote in "Sex" before checking male.
I have the same MyChart issues which ask for gender identity, sexual orientation, sex assigned at birth, and legal sex. I leave GI and sex assigned at birth blank. Such BS.
Sometimes during examinations, I tilt my head to try and confuse the medical staff. ;)
The very least people can do is communicate with the MyChart help team through MyChart's message system, tell them their medical record is incorrect because they don't have a gender identity and their biological sex was recognized at birth not assigned at birth, and demand corrections.
i sent you a message about epic/mychart and the rest so as not to muck up sarah’s thread. but yes I know all about mychart! it is another root of this malignant ideology
They need a coaching guide to help coaches include gender nonconforming males to play on male teams. The boys teams need to deal with this, not the girls teams.
100%!!! You have to wonder why zero dollars and zero effort over the past 15 years or so have ever been put toward this very fair, inclusive, scientifically sound idea
What, support mediocre boys over "girls" who could magically take the "girls" team to greatness?
It’s like we as a society don’t care about the health and wellbeing of girls or boys!
Exactly! Lying to boys and "affirming" their confusion will never improve their lives. Gender ideology is harmful to everyone but particularly girls. It's a massive lose. and so depressing that soooo much time and resources are being spent on enforcing this crime against humanity
Another great article! UC Berkeley started a project out of the Women's Health Initiative collecting data on "female" athletes who have been underserved in examination of sports related injuries, etc. They failed to identify what "female" meant. If we go by the history of Cal that would certainly mean males who pretend to be female. I wrote to them and pleaded with them that if they chose to test females, they should also perform cheek swabs to identify XX. By all means collect data on XY or any chromosome abnormality athletes, but isolate that data away from XX so that your study, and thus recommendations, are pure. No response.
Well done!
Well done. They are also trying to protect the sensitive feelings of girls who call themselves non-binary and can’t bear to face the fact that they have female bodies. So I hear from coaches who have to tiptoe thru this minefield-including requests from players not to use the word women, girls, ladies. I agree that male intrusion masquerading as inclusion is a greater harm, but gender ideology overall is confusing and hurting these should-be-proudly female teams.
Yes, the erasure of the word girl in the course on menstrual health, and substitution with athlete or person is meant to protect females who are triggered when faced with the fact of their female sex (also every minute of every day, for the love of god), and also not offend male athletes/people who are never going to have these body parts or experience these female things, thus proving every second of every day that no matter how hard we all play along, sex remains unchanged and this quasi religious belief continues to break everything it touches
"this quasi religious belief continues to break everything it touches" - could be a book title.
You must have a very strong stomach to continue researching and sharing this horrifying information. Thank you for your work.
Which justice said those disgusting words??
Ketanji Brown Jackson. The same one who couldn't answer what is a woman because "I'm not a biologist."
the one who said she didnt know what a woman is because she’s not a biologist ofc
Right, that tracks.
The one with rocks for brains.
Time to boycott Nike. Duly noted.
Canada has a similar program from the organization Canadian Women & Sport called "Get Girl Coached". It's infuriating.
See above commenter—why haven't these organizations put money and resources into training coaches of boys' teams to accept and celebrate gender nonconforming boys into boys' sports?
It's an excellent question. I think because these organizations are deeply invested in the idea that a man or boy's sense of being a woman or a girl is more important than reality.
To support gender nonconforming boys into boys' sports would require acknowledging that all the children and adults who've been promised they could live as the opposite sex were lied to. Why would they want to admit to medical malpractice and great societal harm in dismantling women's rights?
Much easier for these government-funded organizations to tell women and girls to be kind and shame/threaten us with sanctions if we refuse.
It's about easy "wins" on the "girls" teams, not about supporting mediocre boys.
Boycott Nike. They fund this.
Sarah, Thank you for another excellent article. So painful to read---but I forced myself to get to the end. I am so sick of this erasure of girls and women. And I have no excuse for my profession--the medical profession---sex is critically important in medicine. Different diseases impact females differently than males---there are physiological / biological differences. Heart disease is an easy one: women are more likely to the small blood vessel disease in their hearts and present with "non-classic" symptoms of a heart attack. Women post-menopause develop knee osteoarthritis at a rate much higher than men. Erasing sex means we limit our ability to research and understand sex differences in disease---and women will suffer.