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 …

  • dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    not that walgreens actually needs to know this for me to get a flu shot 🙄

    but yeah, it would be nice if in medical contexts they just marked down what is relevant, e.g. presence or absence of a prostate, presence or absence of a uterus, capacity to become pregnant, etc.