Harefield hospital, sex not gender

[HeidiHoNeighbour]

On patient registration form.

I left it blank, receptionist asked why and I replied what the difference between sex and gender?
Went into to see dr, he asked why it was blank and I asked again.
Neither answered the question.

Today I will be mostly identifying as a milk chocolate hobnob

Your objecting to them asking your biological sex? You do know that it effects treatment right?

Heidi watch out, you could literally get eaten!

They have gender on form not sex.

Isn’t that the same thing?

Your title is......misleading

Are you saying you think it SHOULD BE ‘sex’ and not ‘gender’ or that it WAS ‘sex’ and you think it should be ‘gender’? It’s not clear from your post.

Given the pressure GPs are under I would imagine he had better things to do with his time than argue the toss with you tbh.

Ah, cross post.

@Tonz

It really isnt okay, sex is observed at birth gender is a decision made on feelings intersex is a whole other story

Isn’t that the same thing?

No

I swear I put “Harefield hospital, it’s sex not gender ffs”
Honest!!

Are you fucking serious?

Who gives a shit? Don't be obstructive
Just tick the one which applies and honestly
If you have some sort of gender issue which is actually rare then you need some additional medical support
Were you using the nhs? Stop wasting their fucking time. They are so busy and over worked without having to reason with or justify themselves to some nutter who's come in to be treated

Personally I think gps SHOULD have biological reality first and feelings second because they need to know this information men and women boys and girls present differently medically and have different medical requirements linked to their born sex

I'm Yoda gender.

You are or are not - there is no "identify".

Why did you waste their time to discuss this

They are so busy and over worked without having to reason with or justify themselves to some nutter who's come in to be treated

Agree with this which is why sex not gender should be recorded. What's the point in sending a trans-man an appointment about their prostate or a trans-woman an appointment about a smear test.

(BTW I'm not equating trans with nutters).

@cultkid
Why should I tick a box that doesn’t apply.
It’s sex not gender. It’s important

Yes Zampa I totally agree with you on that! But then the op knew what they meant about gender so just tell them what genitals you have and move on. Don't understand why people get in such a tizz about these things
Presumably seeing someone at a hospital the op had an appointment already related to something they wanted treated or investigated. They knew what they meant.
I use the wrong words and terms often but people generally know what I mean and I just feel this lady was choosing a fight today at hospital

For some things I would argue that you shouldn’t be wasting nhs time over which box to tick, but like @slipperywhensparticus has said, surely the nhs need to know your biological sex to treat you correctly. If I said I was a male and talked about pelvic pain, presumably the doctors would think it was something different to if a woman complained about pelvic pain. (Best example I can think of).
So, yes, I agree, the form should ask for your sex not your gender.

Gender should be recorded differently to sex in our times of daft.

It's not important. You know what they meant. Most forms say gender not sex. This planet has gone crazy with the obsession of political and grammatical correctness. They were asking if you had a dick or not.. next!!

@cultkid Don't understand why people get in such a tizz about these things because I expect the people treating me medically to know the difference between a biological fact (so my sex) or something that I choose myself (my gender).

Christ on a bike, the world has truly turned to shite now.

I wasn’t wasting nhs time. They asked why I hadn’t entered my gender and I asked what’s the difference between sex and gender.
It was at the end of my appointment as I was leaving the dr asked.

The forms are probably left over from when we used to get in a moral panic about using the word sex and found gender a more gentile way of expressing the exact same thing.