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She needs to have her complete medical history in order to receive appropriate healthcare regardless of fertility or lack thereof. Is there any follow up necessary? Is she at increased risk for anything? If this was an intersex issue there is a lot more to it than fertility. She needs to know enough to procure her complete medical records as soon as possible. She can then review the records with her physicians to see what permanent effects may remain. And how to deal with those effects. Explaining the medical ramifications may not be your job but making sure that she knows that there is some medical history of importance, is. I do not understand how this has never come up before, like prior to her first gyn appointment, when you discussed safe sex, as part of the sex talk, when she had sex ed, when that girl in 9th grade got pregnant, when she got the Guardasil vaccine....Something more than you are saying is at play here, or she is extraordinarily sheltered, uninformed and naive. If this is bigger than you have said then her need to know is increased.

Yes, doctors, dentists, and other medical professionals have to ask every women patient about whether she could be pregnant whenever it might be relevant to medical care they’re about to provide her. They do this even if the medical records (e.g., indicating the patient’s age or fertility history) make clear that it’s highly unlikely. Better to be safe than to miss a diagnosis or to issue a treatment that could hurt a pregnant woman or an unborn child.This is not only a matter of avoiding legal liability, as others have said, but also part of fulfilling the Hippocratic Oath. First, do no harm.Finally, I want to say specifically that it *is* appropriate for medical professionals to ask this question of a woman patient they may guess was assigned male at birth. No medical professional should put a patient at risk by making assumptions about the patient’s medical history or by outing patients who might be transgender. Human biology is complicated and one’s external appearance does not unambiguously reveal the details of one’s anatomy.

When i was a kid, I overheard some grown-ups talking about my father’s cousin.Apparently, she was engaged and they went to get the courthouse to get the marriage license. When verifying everyone’s identity, the clerk or whoever found my distant relatives adoption record instead of her birth certificate.That was the first she knew she was adopted.Apparently, her fiance broke off with her as part of the fall out. Either because he thought she lied or had some issue with adoption, I never heard.But I remember thinking how lucky I was that my parents never hid the fact of my adoption from me.My relative’s story is not unique. Adopted kids who aren’t told find out all the time. Maybe a school bully teases them about not looking like their siblings. Maybe relatives—an aunt, a grandparent, etc, lets it slip. Maybe they just get suspicious when they learn about blood types in school and can’t figure out how they can be AB when their parents are both type O.I’m not going to claim being adopted is a walk in the park. There are lots of ways being adopted can fuck with your head, especially if your extended adoptive family doesn’t fully accept you as “one of them.”But it is a thousand times worse to find out that your parents lied to you your entire life. Please don’t do it.On a practical side, we are learning more every year about the heritability of medical problems. Knowing your family’s medical history is such an important thing that my state keeps a special registry for birth parents to submit their medical history for the child to access when they are old enough.Family medical history won’t be available for all adoptees. But if it is available, then they should have access to it. Which means telling them they are adopted.