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Researching the above, and collected a list of articles, thought I’d share the the titles or link here and tag them, maybe they will be useful to someone.

Resources

Directly Dealing with recording sex/gender information

• Recommendations for Inclusive Data Collection of Trans People in HIV Prevention, Care & Services

• Collecting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data in Electronic Health

• Does your organization use gender inclusive forms? Nurses’ confusion about trans* terminology

Of relevance

• http://www.aissg.org/PDFs/Dreger-Nomenclature-2005.pdf - VERY Clinical, but a useful resource for debunking SCIENCE SAYS THERE ARE TWO GENDERS WHAT IS THIS POLITICALLY CORRECT GARBAGE AND WONT SOMEBODY THINK OF THE DATABASE AND IT’S NEEDS???

• http://www.transhealth.ucsf.edu/trans?page=guidelines-terminology - excellent set of terms

• http://who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs403/en/ WHO factsheet & links on Sex & Gender

• Counting Trans Populations - http://www.transhealth.ucsf.edu/trans?page=lib-trans-count

• Identifying Training Needs of Health-Care Providers Related to Treatment and Care of Transgendered Patients: A Qualitative Needs Assessment Conducted in New England

Of Interest

• Serving Transgender People in California: Assessing Progress, Advancing Excellence

Unreviewed as yet, but the titles look relevant

• http://ee6qx5bs9t.scholar.serialssolutions.com/?sid=google&auinit=CA&aulast=Alegria&atitle=Transgender+identity+and+health+care:+Implications+for+psychosocial+and+physical+evaluation&id=doi:10.1111/j.1745-7599.2010.00595.x&title=Journal+of+the+American+Academy+of+Nurse+Practitioners&volume=23&issue=4&date=2011&spage=175&issn=1041-2972

• Reporting Sex, Gender, or Both in Clinical Research?

• Let’s Talk About Sex…and Gender!.

• Transitions to new concepts of gender.

• A novel method for estimating transgender status using electronic medical records.

• Gender incongruence/gender dysphoria and its classification history

• Gender Dysphoria and Gender Incongruence: An evolving inter-disciplinary field.

• Non-binary or genderqueer genders. [Review]

• Sexual identity and prevalence of alcohol and other drug use among Australians in the general population.

• Guidelines for psychological practice with transgender and gender nonconforming people.

• The Body as a Site of Gender-Related Distress: Ethical Considerations for Gender Variant Youth in Clinical Settings.

• Gender, status, and psychiatric labels.

• Psychiatric management of intersexed patients.

• https://s3.amazonaws.com/amo_hub_content/Association140/files/Standards%20of%20Care%20V7%20-%202011%20WPATH%20(2)(1).pdf

• ‘I demand to be treated as the person I am’: experiences of accessing primary health care for Australian adults who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or queer

• Perceived efficiency impacts following electronic health record implementation: An exploratory study of an urban community health center network

• Transgender identity and health care: Implications for psychosocial and physical evaluation

• The Opportunity for Medical Systems to Reduce Health Disparities Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Patients

• Beyond the binary: a proposal for uniform standards for gender identity and more descriptive sex classifications in electronic medical records

• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Healthcare, pp 51-63, Clinic and Intake Forms, Craig A. Sheedy

• Understanding Gender Through the Lens of Transgender Experience

• Improving health care encounters and communication with transgender patients

• Sex and Gender in Acute Care Medicine, By Alyson J. McGregor, Esther K. Choo, Bruce M. Becker

• Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender-Nonconforming People, Version 7

• Unanticipated: Healthcare Experiences of Gender Nonbinary Patients and Suggestions for Inclusive Care

• Minnesota Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer PATIENT TOOLKIT

• Patient Perspectives on Gender Identity Data Collection in Electronic Health Records: An Analysis of Disclosure, Privacy, and Access to Care

• Psychological and Medical Care of Gender Nonconforming Youth

• The development of a gender identity psychosocial clinic: treatment issues, logistical considerations, interdisciplinary cooperation, and future initiatives

• Trauma in Transgender Populations: Risk, Resilience, and Clinical Care

• The Creation and Implementation of a Transgender Cultural Competence Nursing Education Toolkit

• Promoting an Integrated Approach to Ensuring Access to Gender Incongruent Health Care

• Gender Identity: Pending? Identity Development and Health Care Experiences of Transmasculine/Genderqueer Identified Individuals

• Best Practices for Teachers and Providers: A Cross Systems Training to Support Gender-Variant Youth

Good Words

Procrustean

prə(ʊ)ˈkrʌstɪən/

adjective

1. (especially of a framework or system) enforcing uniformity or conformity without regard to natural variation or individuality.

“a fixed Procrustean rule”

Neatest Template I’ve Found So Far:

1. What is your gender identity?
☐ Male
☐ Female
☐ Transgender man / Transman
☐ Transgender woman / Transwoman
☐ Genderqueer / Gender nonconforming
Additional identity (fill in) ________________
☐ Decline to state
2. What sex were you assigned at birth?
☐ Male
☐ Female
☐ Decline to state

It’s concise, has some room for free response but also prompts.

Hanging with my cousins & grandfather yesterday, drinking whiskey & I mention my new word Procrustean.  Grandad enquires about the spelling & casually comments “I wonder if that’s related to Procrustes of Greek mythology.  He was fond of cutting people down or stretching them out to fit into a bed.”

I’d been meaning to look up the etymology of the word, and a quick search later confirmed my grandad is a walking google.

Researching the above, and collected a list of articles, thought I’d share the the titles or link here and tag them, maybe they will be useful to someone.

Resources

Directly Dealing with recording sex/gender information

• Recommendations for Inclusive Data Collection of Trans People in HIV Prevention, Care & Services

• Collecting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data in Electronic Health

• Does your organization use gender inclusive forms? Nurses’ confusion about trans* terminology

Of relevance

• http://www.aissg.org/PDFs/Dreger-Nomenclature-2005.pdf - VERY Clinical, but a useful resource for debunking SCIENCE SAYS THERE ARE TWO GENDERS WHAT IS THIS POLITICALLY CORRECT GARBAGE AND WONT SOMEBODY THINK OF THE DATABASE AND IT’S NEEDS???

• http://www.transhealth.ucsf.edu/trans?page=guidelines-terminology - excellent set of terms

• http://who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs403/en/ WHO factsheet & links on Sex & Gender

• Counting Trans Populations - http://www.transhealth.ucsf.edu/trans?page=lib-trans-count

• Identifying Training Needs of Health-Care Providers Related to Treatment and Care of Transgendered Patients: A Qualitative Needs Assessment Conducted in New England

Of Interest

• Serving Transgender People in California: Assessing Progress, Advancing Excellence

Unreviewed as yet, but the titles look relevant

• http://ee6qx5bs9t.scholar.serialssolutions.com/?sid=google&auinit=CA&aulast=Alegria&atitle=Transgender+identity+and+health+care:+Implications+for+psychosocial+and+physical+evaluation&id=doi:10.1111/j.1745-7599.2010.00595.x&title=Journal+of+the+American+Academy+of+Nurse+Practitioners&volume=23&issue=4&date=2011&spage=175&issn=1041-2972

• Reporting Sex, Gender, or Both in Clinical Research?

• Let’s Talk About Sex…and Gender!.

• Transitions to new concepts of gender.

• A novel method for estimating transgender status using electronic medical records.

• Gender incongruence/gender dysphoria and its classification history

• Gender Dysphoria and Gender Incongruence: An evolving inter-disciplinary field.

• Non-binary or genderqueer genders. [Review]

• Sexual identity and prevalence of alcohol and other drug use among Australians in the general population.

• Guidelines for psychological practice with transgender and gender nonconforming people.

• The Body as a Site of Gender-Related Distress: Ethical Considerations for Gender Variant Youth in Clinical Settings.

• Gender, status, and psychiatric labels.

• Psychiatric management of intersexed patients.

• https://s3.amazonaws.com/amo_hub_content/Association140/files/Standards%20of%20Care%20V7%20-%202011%20WPATH%20(2)(1).pdf

• ‘I demand to be treated as the person I am’: experiences of accessing primary health care for Australian adults who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or queer

• Perceived efficiency impacts following electronic health record implementation: An exploratory study of an urban community health center network

• Transgender identity and health care: Implications for psychosocial and physical evaluation

• The Opportunity for Medical Systems to Reduce Health Disparities Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Patients

• Beyond the binary: a proposal for uniform standards for gender identity and more descriptive sex classifications in electronic medical records

• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Healthcare, pp 51-63, Clinic and Intake Forms, Craig A. Sheedy

• Understanding Gender Through the Lens of Transgender Experience

• Improving health care encounters and communication with transgender patients

• Sex and Gender in Acute Care Medicine, By Alyson J. McGregor, Esther K. Choo, Bruce M. Becker

• Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender-Nonconforming People, Version 7

• Unanticipated: Healthcare Experiences of Gender Nonbinary Patients and Suggestions for Inclusive Care

• Minnesota Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer PATIENT TOOLKIT

• Patient Perspectives on Gender Identity Data Collection in Electronic Health Records: An Analysis of Disclosure, Privacy, and Access to Care

• Psychological and Medical Care of Gender Nonconforming Youth

• The development of a gender identity psychosocial clinic: treatment issues, logistical considerations, interdisciplinary cooperation, and future initiatives

• Trauma in Transgender Populations: Risk, Resilience, and Clinical Care

• The Creation and Implementation of a Transgender Cultural Competence Nursing Education Toolkit

• Promoting an Integrated Approach to Ensuring Access to Gender Incongruent Health Care

• Gender Identity: Pending? Identity Development and Health Care Experiences of Transmasculine/Genderqueer Identified Individuals

• Best Practices for Teachers and Providers: A Cross Systems Training to Support Gender-Variant Youth

Good Words

Procrustean

prə(ʊ)ˈkrʌstɪən/

adjective

1. (especially of a framework or system) enforcing uniformity or conformity without regard to natural variation or individuality.

“a fixed Procrustean rule”

Neatest Template I’ve Found So Far:

1. What is your gender identity?
☐ Male
☐ Female
☐ Transgender man / Transman
☐ Transgender woman / Transwoman
☐ Genderqueer / Gender nonconforming
Additional identity (fill in) ________________
☐ Decline to state
2. What sex were you assigned at birth?
☐ Male
☐ Female
☐ Decline to state

It’s concise, has some room for free response but also prompts.

I’m attempting to develop a working model of a SharePoint for my employer, Health NSW.  Developing innovations in Health can be difficult, as the focus is on delivering front-line services and allocating resources for everyday innovations is unusual.  So if it seems like I’m skimping on paying for help, this is because I’m not resourced to do this.  I’m building this model in the hope it will improve the health of people in NSW.

I have a test SharePoint Site up and running with a preloaded list of users.  I have been asked to develop this into a working proof of concept in the next few weeks.

The end result I’m hoping for is a communication tool that will be used by clinicians across the state to liaise referrals for patients who are highly mobile and are very complex.  

So it looks something like this:

The fields are as follows:

Patient Name : Clinicians enter the name of the patient, this is already set up.
Assigned To : This is the name of the clinician who creates the entry, this is linked to the People database, which has the clinicians contact number and which District they work for.
Issue Status : This is a choice item, I’ve already populated this with what stage of the referral process the patient is at.
Priority : This is a choice item, I’ve already populated this with how urgent the referral is.   
Destination : There are a number of locations that can receive referrals, again, this is a choice item that I have already populated.

Here is the first challenge for me!  

Home Local Health District : I want this field to be populated with data from the People database, so that the District that the Assigned To: clinician works for is automatically populated.

Here is the second challenge for me!  

Associated Local Health Districts :  This is another field I want autopopulated, based on the content of the preceeding field.  I will have another data list that links each district with it’s neighbouring districts.

valykas:

averagejoeys:

keldorai:

terrapanda-ludo:

ofnewkeyworks:

50shhadesoffuckedup:

chocogoat:

what. why? someone pls explain to me pls i wasnt born yet in 1999 why turn computer off before midnight? what happen if u dont?

I HAVE NEVER FELT OLDER

FUCK.

OH. MY. GOD. WHERE IS MY BED PAN AND WALKER.

Oh my god there are people out there

WHO DO NOT KNOW.
HOLY

Can feel my bones turning to dust

I remember when the computer took over. Good thing we had N*SYNC to fight against them.

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jupiter2:

What Your Body Looks Like Top To Bottom

Hah. It’s a guy.

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Pulled this out at work today. It’s always a winner.

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sagansense:

How big is Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko?

The above images depict the comet compared to:

1. Boeing 747
2. Los Angeles, California
3. Toronto, Ontario
4. Boulder, Colorado
5. Raleigh, North Carolina
6. Melbourne, Australia
7. Lelystad, Netherlands
8. New York City, NY

Perspective.

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sagansense:

Perspective.