A SOGI data nightmareRegarding your article that the San Francisco Health Department lags other city agencies in collecting LGBTQ health data euphemistically called SOGI (since we need a separate acronym): good ["On LGBTQ data, SF health department lags other city agencies," April 15].
There was a time when gay people really just wanted to be left alone to do their own thing. The last thing we need in these post-Snowden days of mass surveillance is a convenient government database.
The Nazis found the "Jude" data collection from the 1930 census to be quite convenient.Imagine, you show up to Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital in an ambulance for a broken leg and your gleefully displayed vaccine passport connects you to the health.