It's been a long time coming, but I have finally had a response to a query about my children's flu vaccination consent forms asking for gender rather than sex.
Previous thread (from 2018!) www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/a3384328-Gender-rather-than-sex-on-medical-form
The wording on the local consent forms is from a national template. So I need to follow that up with NHS England and PHE - although I contacted both in 2018 and got nowhere.
BUT The person I emailed last autumn accepted the points I raised and said that perhaps using 'gender' was not appropriate in this day and age and that the local unit would no longer use it on forms with immediate effect
It feels like a small win for accuracy, but I will wait and see what is on the forms this autumn before believing it.
However the email went on to say that the issue would be raised with the equality and inclusion team and I would get a further response, so it may yet be overturned. I imagine a compromise would be to have both sex and gender identity on the form if the E&I team feel the need for the word gender to be on there. If that happens I can just ignore that question or write 'none'