Bit of 2 face in there too I guess, I don't know about your stupid comics and what-not.

Maybe if it's a medical thing you need to enter the physical gender so the doctor/nurse knows how to deal with the necessities.

So they don't bring a douche to a cock fight.

Or have two entries, "brain" and "drain".

http://madgastronomer.tumblr.com/post/99544363983

I identify as neither (and have medically transitioned as much as is possible) and I love my doctor for actually respecting that. Chromosomes don't matter. The fact I used to have testes doesn't matter.

I think it's totally acceptable to ask that question given the field. When I was filling out job applications I'd always click the "wish not to say" button for race and gender, as it shouldn't make a difference (my name can go both ways) but if it's a physical issue, you sort of need to know. I used to live with a "M2F" who really didn't do much except for stuff and wear girl's clothes and still had a dick, and that's fine to identify as a she in my book. But if I had to take her to a hospital I'd like to think they'd ask. If you just ask the question though it's a party/office etc. foul.

whoops must've replied at the same time. I was referring to a big medical emergency or something and not a routine check-up. :)

Generally for a medical emergency it's also not actually relevant, unless the emergency is "my dick got cut off" or "my period is bleeding way too much" or "I'm having a miscarriage."

I've spent some time in the ER due to complications from spironolactone when I was still taking that, but that issue is still not inherently gendered (aside from the question of "Why are you taking spironolactone?"). Of course that particular ER was in San Francisco's Castro district so they understood.

can't tell if you're for real pretty much ever, oddeye
ACHEIVEMENT UNLOCKED

"Don't ask me if I'm real or a fake"

but seriously, it's very trying on everyone, myself included.

Lucy looks sweet,
coz she dresses like a queen,
but she can kick like a mule,
it's a real mean team.

Male, female, or something else that has been invented in the last handful of years or whatever, I don't think this person really runs the risk of beating anyone up.

No, it's more like a drag queen who is sick of the same stupid question from internet idiots with insecurity about non-binary gender expression, making a joke (that lots of queens have used) that will scare away said internet idiots while entertaining non-idiots.

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=135437

Welcome the 21st century, oh cisgender privileged one.

It isn't offensive to say if you have a dick you're probably a man and if you have a vulva you're probably a woman, because the vast majority of people so equipped do happen to fit into those categories.

However, it is offensive to paint everyone with those categorical, binary brush strokes, as well as actively harmful to people who are intersex, transitioning, or questioning.