People with a cervix

Exactly

The NHS shouldn't be pretending that "trans men" are men, at least not in documentation that is sent to everyone.

oh, you're one of those are you.

But surely the word cervical screening would mean that it’s for those who have a cervix. It’s implied in the name.

If you're born with a cervix then you are a woman, can dress up and mess with hormones all you like but still a woman. Science and medicine should focus on fact and not play into the bloody trans agenda.

Actually not all women have a cervix and some people with a cervix but otherwise ambiguous genitalia (intersex people) may not have been raised as girls/women or may have been raised as girls/women but because they have xy chromosomes or male characteristics may live as men as adults. It’s not really difficult to understand.

She means it is offensive to actual women!

Thank you 😂

Have a mocking laugh reply back for all the hidden mocking laughs you've put on my posts. Bless your heart!

It's good to see push back about this. Only last year the NHS was eagerly eradicating women's language from all healthcare, including maternity care. It's only because women and many men finally spoke out about all this that the word woman is being used again.
This is an immensely powerful lobby who've upended the social contract (look at the nurses being compelled to undress in front of male colleagues), made the medical profession look foolish "tell me72 year old male, could you be pregnant?" and worst of all persuaded the NHS to conduct unethical experiments on vulnerable children who've been gaslit into thinking they're born in the wrong body but a sex change will cure them?

All of this shit needs calling out every. single. time. The consequences are too serious for society to ignore.

If someone cannot comprehend or refuses to accept the facts of their own anatomy then they have a mental illness.

Hahahahhaaaaa

How do you know? Do you even know how these guidances, advertisement and polices are written? First, there is statistical data which, I presume, shows that people are routinely missing screening appointments for a variety of reasons. Then, there is a patient panel who has input on how the screening campaign is worded. With any luck, this panel includes a representative sample. There was more than likely an LGBTQ+ person/people in the room making these decisions about what terms would make this information more accessible, inclusive and improve access to screening programme. Enter you with no lived experience and no statistical data claiming that "they know" or rather you know better what "these people with a mental illness" know and need. Don't you think this is a little...hmm..dehumanising?

It's a couple of extra words to indulge mentally unwell people

No other mental illness on the planet causes this level of self indulgence and the total ignoring of the plain truth.

It only needs to refer to men or women (or male or female).

It's really that simple.

Aww bless you

I know that transvestites have always existed. TransGENDER is a recent phenomenon. Even if it wasn't, Schizophrenia has existed in history and cultures, that doesn't mean we pander to it. We wouldn't agree with a man who thinks he is the second coming of Jesus because.....Schizophrenia. I am not now, nor ever, going to pander to someone with a mental illness/dysphoria who because..... thinks they are gendered soul born in the wrong body. Not now, not ever!

Then you don't need your cervix checked do you? Nobody is saying all women have a cervix, we're saying that only women have a cervix.

In Edinburgh screening is for people with a cervix. No mention of women.

No. It's not. It disadvantages women for whom English may not be their first language, it erases women from medical literature that should be solely focused on women as the priority, and it is fundamentally ludicrous. Trans men know they are female. There is nothing offensive about acknowledging their biological reality, particularly when it comes to making sure they attend to the basic screening needs their biology demands.

Whar about the pretend cats? Why didn't they say people and animals with a cervix.

It's not the word 'person'. Its cervix. It's that they are reducing WOMEN (trans men) to sex organs.

No one changes sex. Trans men are women and we shouldn't be indulging this mental illness.

The waters should never be muddied on this.

Someone I know got called for cervical screening because he has changed his NHS record to say he is female. He was highly amused by this but if there are men who are getting this kind of letter because they have taken on an alternative gender identity then there will be women in the same position who are missing out on screening because they have changed their records to say they are men.

The solution is not to have this daft wording, it's to have all NHS records reflect sex and not ideologies such as gender identity. People who believe they are trans know exactly what body parts they have so there is no need for this.

Calling women 'cervix havers' is the ultimate in disdain, so I feel you are gaslighting. Trans people are still either male or female. They don't need any special term, and they still have the same access to their sex-based treatment as everyone else.

What annoys me more is .. that the start age is 25.. it should start as soon as you become sexual active.
So many young women getting cervical cancer under 25 years of age.