- Elizabeth Storrs after Vet cycle is done, migrate CAS/Liaison gender field to standard Gender Identity field; migrate CAS/Liaison sex field to gender marker
- create new marker and identity fields in TUH
- discuss next move with Dmitri
The required ‘legal sex’ v. optional ‘preferred gender’ in the CAS systems is a decent entry point to thinking about sex/gender as a core data point within the Tufts data ecosystem.
Incoming Data
There are a variety of ways that this data is offered.
The CAS systems are detailed here.
Summary sheet of all incoming admissions data
Slate to SIS
This is mapped from the delivered, person-scoped Sex field in Slate.
If gender does not match within
SIS
Everything ultimately has to flow into SIS.
Interestingly enough, there are other (delivered) options for tracking this data in SIS that have been added since 2017, when we added new sex/gender options.
Conversation with Hope Freeman 7/10/2024
gender marker (M/F/X/O) and gender identity as separate fields
more transparency about what information is flowing where
Link to notes on challenges/issues (last updated 2022)
IAM project (in Standard Enrollment Analytics Box folder)
From SIS
Of course, any changes in SIS affect downstream things!
Medicat
Jonathan Pritchard 6/24/2024:
Sex in Medicat, has 4 options. In reviewing the SIS file, only M/F/U are populated (outliers mapped to U), but a [staff] user in Medicat can change the sex if needed.
Female
Male
Transgender
Unknown
There are also user-defined options to capture pronouns and gender identity--these are updated manually.
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