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My local NHS has finally stopped asking my child’s “gender” in place of their sex

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carefulvulvadriver · 21/09/2022 15:07

For the last 2 years, the annual flu vaccine parental consent form has asked what “gender” primary school age children are instead of their sex. I won’t rehearse here why, when administering vaccines and any other pharmaceutical intervention, actually knowing the biological sex of the human receiving it is pretty vital (as is recording of population data on who receives these interventions (and who doesn’t)). However, having just been sent this year’s form, I wanted to note here that THEY NOW ASK FOR THE CHILD’S SEX!! Hurray! Anyone else noticed this in their local vaccine programme?

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TheBiologyStupid · 21/09/2022 15:31

MrsOvertonsWindow · 21/09/2022 15:26

That's brilliant OP. Small steps and all that in removing the clutches of the lobby groups from the throat of the NHS.

+1
Only our youngest is still at school but I'll be keeping an eye out for these forms.

MrsOvertonsWindow · 21/09/2022 15:26

That's brilliant OP. Small steps and all that in removing the clutches of the lobby groups from the throat of the NHS.