Biological man not allowed to give blood because he refuses to say whether or not he's pregnant

Asking admittedly stupid questions as part of the formal process implies it’s not a stupid question at all though.

Sex matters because men and women are different . Even with blood. Men are more at risk of problems with blood donated from women who have been pregnant.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2657356

If the NHS are not acknowledging the very basics of science why should anyone else?

Are you pregnant? is a standard question for women

asking a man is completely batshit

It’s total idiocy. Someone could really need that blood and they’re preventing him from doing a good thing that could save a life because he won’t pander to their agenda.

He’s a biological man. He is not pregnant,
as he can’t be.
Good for him standing up for himself.

"Are you pregnant" has never been a standard question to ask a man, give over.
Meekly going along with obvious nonsense is what landed us in this mess to begin with.

I’ve seen tweets from people boasting about the hard time they give health professionals over (admittedly stupid) questions like asking a man if he’s pregnant, but always think ‘Oh FFS, just say “no” and move on to the next question, how hard can it be? Why all the melodrama?’

Maybe it’s because I was a health professional for 35 years?

I’m asked if I’m pregnant at every mammogram, but don’t kick off just because I’m post-menopausal. They’re just standard questions.

I've got to be honest I was a tad disappointed that my dentist didn't ask me if there was a possibility I could be pregnant when I was getting an X-ray of my mouth.

He was absolutely mortified when I asked "Does that mean I'm officially old if you don't ask me if I could be pregnant?"

I console myself thinking he probably saw my date of birth on the screen rather than that I look old ;)

Which is the entire point.

Exactly!

I have given blood over 50 times and unless I have forgotten it's on the questionnaire, never been asked. When my form is checked, only seem ever to ask where I've been abroad.

Laughable. If it wasn't so serious. I despair when I think of today's teenage boys, in the future, simply answering such a question without demur because they have been so indoctrinated with this absolute nonsense that it is normalised.

The NHS has been ruined by various ideologies and this was the final nail. You can throw more taxpayers money at it and it will be wasted as it always is, the is no science to follow in the NHS, just ideologies.

To be honest, the NHS is beyond repair. They say they want blood donations but people stop because of this insane ideology. No other country has a health service like this that fails on every level and shows no sign of improvement

“Being difficult” because as a doctor sex matters. Only one sex can get pregnant. Pregnancy has serious medical implications including death. Implying men can also get pregnant is both dangerous, wrong and a waste of resources.

I’m not sure on the post menopausal woman question given IV treatment. Better to ask maybe.

Actually, I'm going to memorise those questions.

Because the next inoculation I have, there's a good chance I'll be asked.

If I’m ever asked if I could be pregnant in a situation like this - not that I can donate blood, unfortunately - I’ve determined to just keep asking questions (I’m in my 50s and menopausal so the chances are minute and getting smaller each passing day.) “How would I know if I can get pregnant? What’s the criteria for being able to get pregnant? Why is it important to know if I could be pregnant? What difference would it make if I were pregnant?” just for the sheer bloody-minded satisfaction of highlighting the inconsistencies and hypocrisy in this ridiculous ideology.

Argh, check out this confused mess:

https://www.blood.co.uk/news-and-campaigns/the-donor/call-for-more-men-to-give-blood/

The phrase "donors of every gender" used in an appeal which notes that actually, the sex of the blood donor does matter.

I stopped donating blood in the '80s - the questioning was becoming onerous even then. (I remember being asked if I'd visited a Communist country in the past six months and wondering, "when did that became contagious?" Forty years on, and ideology does indeed appear to be transmissible.)

How about every single adult person get a grip and admit their sex. And so on a document where it asks for sex, adults tick the sex they are and none of this crap needs to be added where irrelevant for the sex.

The issue is because some people cannot admit the sex they are because they believe gender is key.

The damage this nonsense is doing to the credibility of medics is appalling. I understand that it's often a tick box but when you hear of men being asked if they could be pregnant & clueless hcps using language like cervix / uterus havers and asking unwell 71 year olds how they identify I just assume that the individual is not fit for purpose - poorly trained and in the grip of a delusion.

They really need to return to using medically factual and accurate language and not gender woowoo speak. 🙄

Good grief, that's totally batshit. I hope your mother is OK now after that terrible wait.

My friend was asked by a midwife at her booking in appointment what sex she was, not even which gender she identified with which I find ridiculous but could tolerate.

No I couldn't tolerate that. I'd be sending that midwife packing with a flea in her ear and demanding a midwife that actually knows a little bit about human biology and reproduction.

I was about to make the same point. At least not everyone in the NHS is captured.

I have never seen MH services here and got a MH referral via a letter for Re education over my objection over this ideology. I rang MH to say I am not interested.

A week later a man from MH announced that I had been released from a MH ward and that I didn't turn up to out patients and asking why, I said you are insane and put down the phone.

I had family with me eho knew i hadn't been in hospital that week or for years as they were here with me (those making the referral didn't know i had family living with me as previously i loved alone) and I have only been in hospital as an inpatient three times for surgery never MH.

The next day two MH people turned up at my door. A family member answered the door and videoed them and said you are harassing her and making factually incorrect medical records about her because she doesn't believe men are women.

I offered the recording to people last year, they weren't interested or ignored me, like I was mad which was why this was done to me. I doubt that I wasn't alone in this having been done. I deregistered from my GP over it as I didn't trust them.

I think it was because I had been complaining to the safeguarding board and council and have evidence one of them was defending Dr Adrian Harrop.

I doubt you will believe me either, incase it happened to anyone else I am posting to let them know they aren't alone.

And those who eagerly look forward to getting a smear test appointment. Therefore taking the place of a woman, and making healthcare professionals waste their bloody time.

I remember that case.

And there also the male TRAs who crow with delight when they are asked by medical personnel if they could be pregnant.