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I am supportive of people's right to live with dignity and respect, and I agree that asking in front of a waiting room is undesirable (I have had that same thought in other waiting rooms, too), but I feel like a medical analysis setting is one in which biology (sex) actually does take precedence over identity (gender), because that has implications what and how things are analyzed.
That said, transgender persons taking hormones will have much greater variance in ranges of everything. I think it's sensible to have additional gender markers in addition to sex.
They're a lab that takes samples, they do no medical analysis, they do sample analysis then send it to people whom are qualified. The average Lifelabs worker is a phlebotomist, and last time I checked, your sex, gender, skin colour, height, age doesn't make blood somehow different in any respect as to how you handle it.
Pull your head out of your ass.
People don't stop having a gender just because they're in a doctor's office. Gender-affirming care starts with treating people like themselves.
"Sex" is not always a "one or the other" situation, if you assume that all cis women have ovaries then you're going to be wrong about every cis women with a hysterectomy. The actual medical best-practice is an anatomical inventory.
You would be amazed how often CIS women are assumed to have ovaries.
My neighbour is in her 40s and hasn't had ovaries or a uterus in 15ish years due to cancer. The fucking docs ask if there's a chance of her being pregnant constantly, unless she's dealing with the specialists she dealt with during her cancer treatment.
The TLDR is that doctors need to get their shit together, it's fucking embarassing how these old stupid mentalities still dominate that field.
This article (scientificamerican.com) contains a really nice graphic illustrating all the various reasons why looking at gender in binary is flawed from the get-go. Much more useful to understand the person individually; respecting pronouns being just the tip of the iceberg of that.
The problem often to me comes from wrongful abstraction of social markers by people educated in the life sciences. Most individuals coming from the STEM sector tend to align right due to the fundamentalist fatalist perception education in the sciences procurs. The issue is they lack the self-awareness to realize that they are not educated sufficiently on social topics.