BBC Article about why Transgender People are Ignored in Medicine

& what social norms should be changed?

This article is melting my brain, the dissonance is well it just is!

A large aspect of this article that is acknowledged though, is that a person being transgender is really important to what medical treatment they receive. This means however, that the trans person must accept it being recorded in some way.
Doctors will treat patients as to how their records reflect them. The main patient in this article risked their own life by not disclosing the fact they were born female, that was not the doctors fault.
The lack of knowledge as to how cross sex hormones affects healthcare is a huge issue.

‘Rather than devising new ways to cope with changing social norms, transgender people are often shoehorned into inappropriate boxes instead.’

But it’s not the doctors doing the shoehorning is it?

When the doctors were taking Cameron’s history he should have mentioned he was born female - simple!

Cameron should have taken responsibility for themselves and told the doctors from the very first consult that they are female. (Dear god what an awkward sentence - purely because we are required to ignore the same biological reality that nearly killed this person.)

Should I complain that medical care ignores obscure allergies if I do not declare my allergy to HCPs and then get sicker as a result of incorrect treatment?

I was hoping that somebody would post a link to this.

I found the article very confusing, It refers to gender when they mean sex, it speaks how trans gender people are badly treated in healthcare.

What do they want? For everyone to refer to them as the opposite of the sex they were born as, except except when it comes to healthcare despite the fact that they’ve done everything to erase details of the sex they were born as?

How would doctors do that? chromosomes? We all know that doesn’t work either right?

Gender is fundamental to many decisions in health care systems around the world – and this puts transgender people in a vulnerable position

Sorry - couldn't read further than the headline. Says all you need to know about the BBC.

Sex is fundamental to the incidence, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and outcomes of disease, not gender.

Errors of healthcare which were based on gender only serves to underline the importance of sex in healthcare.

The BBC is turning itself into an embarrassment.