Preparing teaching session/presentation for medical colleagues

This article by Karleen Gribble, Nils Bergman, Hannah Dahlen on the effective communication and importance of sex based language in maternity care and breastfeeding support was just last week presented at the Unicef baby friendly UK conference. You might find it makes relevant points for GP practice too.

www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgwh.2022.818856/full

How about this? 🧐

listloop.com/wpath/mail.cgi/archive/adhoc/20221125183220/

Also look at Karleen Gribble who has an excellent paper on the importance of sexed language. It is very well presented, includes examples and trans people were included in the process which helps with accusations of terfdom.

I use this manual daily in my job. I think every healthcare professional should know of it to refer to. This is the bit about sex and gender: service-manual.nhs.uk/content/inclusive-content/sex-gender-and-sexuality

Yes our trust likes putting on Trans Awareness sessions. Luckily they are voluntary via Teams and barely anyone turns up as we're all quite busy doing clinical stuff right now.

Have just been to a conference with a big trans session, purposefully didn't go to that session as I'd have exploded but found I could easily tell my mates why I'd avoided it.

Practitioners. So hard typing accurately on MN!

And studies. It's an international group of 100 clinical pratitioners and researchers

I'd also look at SEGM (segm.org/) The society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine for reference-able medical articles

Yeah, there are clearly some gender critical feminists on dnuk. And some allies. I'm pretty sure that some of them are on here too...

I have found that I can be very out as GC at work in the NHS. Spent a happy afternoon peaking our team leader. However senior management emails all have pronouns on and Medtwitter is a very TWAW place. So I keep quiet unless I have sussed those around me out.

Doctors net is not the big thing it used to be but it is also a very GC space.

I very cautiously snook some GC awareness into a DIT teaching session on paediatric UTI by mentioning about teenage girls refusing to drink anything all day, and ending up with bladder problems, because they were so reluctant to use mixed sex toilets in schools. I was pleasantly surprised that some of the GP trainees had some awareness of the issues. I do think clinically relevant problems is one way into the conversation.

I applaud you for stepping up to discuss this important subject with colleagues. Sex Matters have some great resources to support a professional presentation. Including a little guide called "Sex and the law - a short guide to your human rights in everyday life" which is very good and I recommend, as I've just read it. All available to download from their website.

That replacing sex with gender even on a form for e.g. new patients to fill in causes harm.

If they want to be inclusive, they can add all the eleventy billion made up genders to the bottom of their list after the sexes male & female, but expecting people who do not subscribe to gender ideology to pretend it is a real thing excludes those people which can cause simple health problems to be come larger over time as they go untreated.

If a form asks 'what is your gender' or has the heading 'gender', there is NO option I can fill in, because I do not believe there is such a thing as 'female gender' & I am NOT the same biological being as some transperson who wants to tick the same box as me.

Ordinary & gender critical people deserve supportive healthcare too.

Inclusivity should never be at the expense of other groups.

Good for you OP. Much needed.
In addition to the Cass review, Transgender Trend has a couple of excellent pieces about the psychological damage done to children and teenagers from social affirmation:

www.transgendertrend.com/childhood-social-transition/

www.transgendertrend.com/teenager-says-theyre-transgender/

They also need to know that countless organisations have stopped referring children to Mermaids after their staff paedophile / porn scandals.

I would do the Cass review as it will be respected and you can't personally be challenged on it.