Doctors have to 100% respect their patient’s wishes but treatment has to be delivered in a biological sense. There’s no good reason to not point out to a patient that this or that treatment is the best course of action based on their biological make up, even if that may hurt or even offend some people. There’s no way a patient could make informed decisions about their own health otherwise. If the doctors don’t do that then they become liable for the wrong diagnoses or treatments they prescribe.
You do not know what I am talking about. Please stop making wild assumptions about what I mean. You are making up nonsense narratives to argue against.
Nobody is saying doctors shouldn’t treat people in line with their current biology. Which by the way, for trans people is more complicated than just treatment based on sex at birth.
Trans people want inclusive and accurate terminology to be used. Talking about prostate cancer? Refer to “people with prostates”. That is accurate and inclusive.
People like Sam Harris say we shouldn’t do that, and only ever say “men” or “women” even if that is both less accurate and invalidating towards trans people.
The rest of your comment has little to do with what I said before. So I’m not going to go chasing after it. I give people the benefit of the doubt, but I’m also not going to waste time trying to convince a person who doesn’t want to be convinced to be less bigoted. Convincing the racist to be less racist often isn’t the goal.
You do not know what I am talking about. Please stop making wild assumptions about what I mean. You are making up nonsense narratives to argue against.
Nobody is saying doctors shouldn’t treat people in line with their current biology. Which by the way, for trans people is more complicated than just treatment based on sex at birth.
Trans people want inclusive and accurate terminology to be used. Talking about prostate cancer? Refer to “people with prostates”. That is accurate and inclusive.
People like Sam Harris say we shouldn’t do that, and only ever say “men” or “women” even if that is both less accurate and invalidating towards trans people.
The rest of your comment has little to do with what I said before. So I’m not going to go chasing after it. I give people the benefit of the doubt, but I’m also not going to waste time trying to convince a person who doesn’t want to be convinced to be less bigoted. Convincing the racist to be less racist often isn’t the goal.