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Rights and responsibilities in GP if gender-critical

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Healthanon · 25/02/2023 19:36

Good evening all.
I was wondering if anyone could give me advice on my rights and responsibilities working in general practice as a gender critical woman.

To be clear, I want to treat all people with respect and dignity and provide them with all the health care and information that they need or require. I am very happy to call anyone by whatever first name they like but I am gender critical and don’t want to use any gendered terms at all if possible.
Is this ok? I could call all people M. As a title? M. Jones, M. Smith, etc.

Any trans people out there, would you find this acceptable? How about non trans people? Would you be ok not being called Mr/Miss/Ms?

If someone complained about me because of this will I get fired?

OP posts:
DrJump · 25/02/2023 20:12

My GP surgery calls my full name. Then in the room never says my name. “How are you today?” Etc

Faffertea · 25/02/2023 20:11

I’m going to honest OP and say your post seems very odd to me.
Firstly because if you are a GP I don’t see how what you’re worrying about is an issue. You call the patient Joe Bloggs or whatever their name is.
Secondly I don’t understand what you mean by ‘gendered language.’ Are you talking about what pronouns you would use to a third party e.g if you were referring a patient?
Thirdly and most significantly how can you have got through medical school, foundation training and GP specialty training and not be aware of the basic sources of guidance regarding your practice?

titchy · 25/02/2023 20:09

Confused M as a title? It isn't a title. It's a letter of the alphabet. How have you been referring to your fictionalpatients so far?

Theunamedcat · 25/02/2023 19:54

My Dr rarely calls me by a name its always how can I help? I can give you this we need to test for that the ONLY time my Dr has used my name is when they told me it was going to be fine and yes I was a bit of a tit but no harm done (I told my Dr how I hurt my back the conversation started "so I've been a bit of a tit")

TeenDivided · 25/02/2023 19:42

Can you not just use their first name + surname?
e.g. 'Sam Watson please' or 'Right Sam, how can I help you today?'

Surely the main thing would be to ensure their actual sex is recorded correctly so they get appropriate healthcare?