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Gender rather than sex on medical form

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TransposersArePosers · 04/10/2018 09:08

I have had a form for my primary aged child's flu immunisation and lo and behold, under child's details they have asked for Gender: Girl or Boy

This probably wouldn't have bothered me last Winter to be fair, but now that I seem to have become GC (thanks to the lovely adult human females of this board!), I am fuming. I will contact the NHS trust that has sent out this document, but would like to know whether phoning or email would be better? Or both? I want to cross out Gender on the form and replace it with sex and write Female and Male.

Surely when it comes to medical forms we should be clear as to what sex the patient is? FFS

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NicoAndTheNiners · 04/10/2018 09:51

It’s creeping in everywhere.

My new DBS certificate proudly proclaims my gender to be female. Surely it should be more worried about my biological sex?

My new job online application asked me my gender. As it was online I couldn’t even cross gender out and write sex in its place!

silentcrow · 04/10/2018 09:49

I did, too. I'm not sure how it works elsewhere, but I did note this was a private company working on behalf of the NHS. So maybe we need to challenge these providers as well as local trusts, who may not have designed the forms.

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TransposersArePosers · 04/10/2018 09:38

Right, I will see what answers I get from the Trust and report back.

I've just told DH and he said 'It's starting already!'

I said I'll be off on protest marches before he knows it!

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PenguindreamsofDraco · 04/10/2018 09:27

I crossed it out on the flu form and wrote 'sex' too.

NoSquirrels · 04/10/2018 09:24

I’ve just this morning crossed out gender and out sex on some school forms. Words matter. Have both of you really MUST to validate feelings, but birth sex should be on record.

theOtherPamAyres · 04/10/2018 09:23

You are right, so right. My elderly mother changed doctors after a house move recently, and crossed out gender, to write 'sex'. (She has been radicalised!)

Her sex is highly relevant to the purpose of the form.

The NHS needs to roll back on the woke business before their data and prevention programmes are seriously compromised. I am particularly concerned about the occurrence of gender in so many policy documents by my local NHS commissioning body.

emwithme · 04/10/2018 09:23

I've crossed out gender and replaced it with sex on medical forms - most notably in A&E last year when haemhorraging because of a miscarriage.

FraterculaArctica · 04/10/2018 09:22

Just done DS's. I crossed out Gender and wrote Sex.

Ekphrasis · 04/10/2018 09:22

I crossed it out and put sex! Interested link...

JetPlanes · 04/10/2018 09:21

I crossed it out!

Lweji · 04/10/2018 09:19

I would. Grin

ScrimshawTheSecond · 04/10/2018 09:19

I just had a quick google - this is interesting, not something I'd been aware of - 'Females typically develop higher antibody responses and experience more adverse reactions following vaccination than males.':

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4447843/

deepwatersolo · 04/10/2018 09:18

I'd probably do both and would make a point of asking, whether - from an expert medical scientific view point - they believe medical treatments of people should generally be informed by gender or sex.