However, They tell use they did something "disgusting" when labeling patient data by reinforcing some social constructs. That is just what *must* be done when looking at many aspects of physical medical health research.
It is inappropriate to take self selection of something like gender identity into account for medical research not specifically dealing with transitioning and the follow on effects/side effects. Let's flip it around judge if it would be appropriate to approve a drug that was tested exclusively on white men in the 40s. The conclusion being that if it works for them it should be safe and effective for everyone. It would be irresponsible to do clinical trials for most drugs tossing gender out the window because it made people uncomfortable.
This is of course absurd and people would rightly call it out as such. Don't believe me? Take a look at the garbage patch of early AI image research trained on data sets of white men and how that worked for imagines outside of the test group.
I know the researcher wants to respect identity, but with luck their research can help to save lives even if they had to hold their nose while doing it.
There are two sexes. Regarding race, there are diseases whose incidence varies with self-reported race, so the concept of race should not be expunged.
Human gender is pretty complicated biologically.
You can have male chromosomes, that don't express and end up female.
You can have male chromosomes and have genetic programmes to modify anatomical structures express incorrectly due to hormonal disturbances, etc, etc.
