Même en ophtalmo, ne pas se tromper sur sexe, genre, etc…

C’est le JAMA Ophthalmology qui, fin octobre 2022, a publié un viewpoint intitulé ‘Sex and Gender Reporting in Ophthalmology‘. Les termes sexe et genre sont parfois mal compris, voire intervertis, et moi le premier, je confonds ces concepts !

Voici un extrait de cet article, et je reprends le glossaire qui est bien fait (image ci-contre) : As defined by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), sexual and gender minority groups encompass “lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, as well as those whose sexual orientation and/or gender identity varies, those who may not self-identify as LGBT (eg, Queer, Questioning, TwoSpirit, Asexual, men who have sex with men, Gender-variant), or those who have a specific medical condition affecting reproductive development (eg, individuals with differences or disorders of sex development, who sometimes identify as intersex).”² Sex refers to one’s biological classification and is a static, binary categorization.¹ Gender is a broader term that encompasses how an individual wishes to be perceived by others, often using the range of characteristics pertaining to masculinity and femininity while factoring in social and cultural aspects.³ Additionally, just as gender cannot be inferred from sex, self-identified pronouns cannot be inferred from gender. 

Le point de vue attire l’attention des professionnels en général, des auteurs d’articles en particulier, afin de bien préciser sexe et genre dans les manuscrits, avec la méthode utilisée pour les décrire.