App does not support tracking the sex of intersex people

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Some people are intersex, having other combinations of chromosomes other than the usual XX or XY. The sex field in this app is limited to M and F which does not support tracking this information.

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_{[original: nus-cs2103-AY2324S2/pe-interim#678] [original labels: severity.Low type.FeatureFlaw]}

[tengcharmaine]

Team's Response

Hello! Thank you for bringing up this issue :). When planning the app, we did consider this. However we decided against this because the general convention for assigned sex at birth is to use M or F. According to this website (https://www.pampers.com/en-us/pregnancy/pregnancy-announcement/article/what-determines-the-sex-of-a-baby), what determines the gender of a person is the Y chromosome. Having different combinations of the chromosome does not affect the categorisation of a person's sex.

Allowing for more categorizations of sex beyond medical convention could inadvertently confuse the users, since they now have to remember a ClinicMate specific way of displaying information that is not used standard practice=. Therefore, we dont think that there will be a need (and is possibly detrimental) to add more sexes to the current M and F.

Additionally, if a patient has something like Klinefelter syndrome(XXY), it is more appropriate to record this in a note than try to capture more information in sex.

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