This story has been doing the rounds in the last couple of days.
What bothers me about it, is not the administrative error; that happens and can be put right and people make mistakes. Or that the nurse is transgender; some people are and that's fine. No, what really bothers me, is that when the patient commented that she'd asked for a woman, instead of saying "oh, I'll get someone else" or "well, I'm a transwoman so that's a woman in my view, but OK, I'll get you someone else if you're not comfortable", the nurse told the patient that he was a woman, as if that somehow solved the problem.
It's the assumption that the patient was making a mistake in not recognising and validating his identity and submitting to a genital examination on the basis of it, that really shows the nurse's male socialisation. An actual woman, seeing a patient was uncomfortable, would smooth things over rather than confront and put her ego and her identity at the centre of things. But when you decide to change your identity, you don't suddenly change your socialisation. Men are socialised to expect their world-view to be accepted by women and boy, does this little incident highlight that.
If the GRA goes through, we'll see a lot more of this and the NHS is going to have a massive problem deciding whose feelings are a priority.