re: Med Schools Are Now Denying Biological Sex

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In other words, some of the country’s top medical students are being taught that humans are not, like other mammals, a species comprising two sexes. The notion of sex, they are learning, is just a man-made creation.

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This isn't true in my experience. What we learn is pathophysiological processes that absolutely revolve around a strict notion of biological sex. The difference might be that for the general public, there is no meaningful distinction made between chromosomal, gonadal, and anatomical sex, not to mention genetic and hormonal aspects of sexual differentiation, whereas for us those are important distinctions to recognize. There is a complex sex differentiation system, and a series of disorders which can determine variation. That doesn't mean that the default XX female-XY male system isn't taught. It's so engrained that it provides a neat place to delineate all those disorders.

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In 2019, the New England Journal of Medicine reported the case of a 32-year-old transgender man who went to an ER complaining of abdominal pain. While the patient disclosed he was transgender, his medical records did not. He was simply a man. The triage nurse determined that the patient, who was obese, was in pain because he’d stopped taking a medication meant to relieve hypertension. This was no emergency, she decided. She was wrong: The patient was, in fact, pregnant and in labor. By the time hospital staff realized that, it was too late. The baby was dead. And the patient, despite his own shock at being pregnant, was shattered.

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This context is actually important, because the caveats made in lectures about approaches to pregnant patients, in which I've also heard familiar phrasing as the mentioned implication in the article, that only women can get pregnant, but it was couched in getting as complete a history as possible, as well as the appropriate nomenclature in documenting a patient who underwent a transition.

The pronoun stuff in the piece does sound believable though.

We're going to have a generation of mentally insane people performing routine surgeries on us

Scary to think these are our future doctors.

I would really like to see that snowflake woke prof presiding over an anatomy lab with real human cadavers.