On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 21:45, Adina Bogert-O'Brien <o...@adina.ca> wrote: > Mateus, this is something some clinics/doctors officially do though, so > it would be verifiable. It's not like saying, "we won't belittle you" > or "our food is yummy." It's a clear clinic policy around what criteria > you need to fulfill in order for them to treat you. It's more > comparable to indicating the kind of therapy a therapist offers > (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy vs. psychoanalysis for example), what > insurance is accepted (private or public), or that an organization > offers services to a certain group of people (women, youth, LGBTQ*, > undocumented people, etc.).
Yep. > Rory, I like your first suggestion, > healthcare:trans:informed_consent=yes/no, but I need to caveat that > with the statement that I am far from an expert on tagging or informed > consent ;) > It seems that the question of informed consent doesn't just cover hrt, > it covers surgeries and possibly other treatments I think? Is that also > your understanding? yeah, that's what I think. Healthcare laws vary by country, so things like voice therapy might be included too? > Initially I was thinking it would make a lot of > sense to include the specific therapy covered by informed consent, but > maybe that's redundant since if you treat based on informed consent, > that seems like it would cover all aspects of care provided to trans > folks - but it would be good to confirm that as well. I _presume_ so... but good point. Thankfully OSM tags can be generic like this, so we can just add "some informed consent" > And the other > tagging (eg: trans*:hrt=yes, or healthcare:specialty:endocrinology, or > maybe healthcare:specialty:surgery?) would tell you what other types of > service they offer? Yes, adding extra tags for what type of healthcare services are available can be done. But that's always been the case, even without informed consent tagging. I think this is an area which OSM is weak on (right?) BTW, for those that use Telegram, there's a RainbOSM group: https://www.t.me/RainbOSM _______________________________________________ Diversity-talk mailing list Code of Conduct: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Diversity/MailingList/CodeOfConduct Contact the mods (private): diversity-talk-ow...@openstreetmap.org
