Hey everyone,
There’s a significant amount of people who have a preference concerning their doctors’ gender, especially in sensitive and intimate fields like psychiatry/psychotherapy or gynaecology/urology. I personally know quite a lot of people who only want to go see a male urologist or only go visit a female psychotherapist as a personal preference and who would benefit from such OSM data.
When mapping a psychotherapist recently, I didn’t find a tag on the wiki that could be used to tag the therapist’s gender.
I therefore have the following questions:
- Is there an established tag I could use in this situation? If so, which one?
- (How) do we tell apart the operator, compared to the owner, compared to the staff? Depending on the intention, not all of those would be very helpful to a user.
- For example, if I want to get my intimate areas waxed and would prefer someone of my own gender to do that, I might not care about the operator’s or owner’s gender, but much rather the staff’s.
- Conversely, I heard some people choose to prefer supporting local woman-owned businesses over others. For them, it’d actually be more important to know the gender of the owner rather than the staff or operator.
- But if it’s a single-practitioner therapist’s office like the one I’m mapping, the ‘staff’ and ‘operator’ might be one and the same after all.