Since men and women have different anatomy and different hormonal makeup, are there some concrete procedures where doctors absolutely need to know the patient's real gender?
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Some drugs have different dosages for females. Ventilator settings are based on ideal body weight which is calculated differently for females.
In terms of dosage for drugs is it purely determined by the gender or is it because males are generally heavier?
The reason I ask this is because this seems to me like the big elephant in the room in the whole 'misgendering' debate.
If I can make people happy by calling them by their preferred pronouns I don't mind, but when it comes to facts and science, like medicine, things are different.
When a doctor adjusts his medical procedure in accordance with the real gender of a trans person. He would be comitting a sin to the trans-dogma.