Government consultation feedback on menopause - please respond

[Dartfordwarblerautumn]

Can’t see a thread on this
Please complete this questionnaire
forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=nt3mHDeziEC-Xo277ASzSugWXtlS9G1OpuyhNtc2h8lUNkpKMUhIOFFINURIQlZMTko5ME5XU1VTTSQlQCN0PWcu&wdLOR=c132E7441-C178-47BE-B863-D79F4828FB36

And on a questionnaire about MENOPAUSE, the government asks this:

19. What, if any, impact do you think your gender identity had on your experience of menopause?

My response was rather, erm, pointed.

Thanks for the link, @Dartfordwarblerautumn.

And the sex question on the last page.... and no opportunity to ask why, or to explain the gender/sex at birth stupidity

I just wrote that I didn’t understand. Because I really don’t.

I saw the sex question and went back to the “anything else we need to know” question and explained that as men don’t go through menopause they really don’t need to be represented on a questionnaire about experience of menopause.

@SpindleWhorl

And on a questionnaire about MENOPAUSE, the government asks this:

19. What, if any, impact do you think your gender identity had on your experience of menopause?

My response was rather, erm, pointed.

Thanks for the link, @Dartfordwarblerautumn.

Yes, I said responded this isn’t about gender it is about sex 🤦‍♀️

For anyone else doing it the free texr box holds quite a lot 🙂

Thanks for posting OP
Done- the free text box does hold quite a lot @CuriousaboutSamphire 😉

I actually enjoyed composing some pithy answers to some of the more ridiculous questions!

Where is this questionnaire from and who gets the information?

It's amazing isn't it.

"Tell us about your menopause, and is your sex male or female?" Oh just fuck off.

@SpindleWhorl

And on a questionnaire about MENOPAUSE, the government asks this:

19. What, if any, impact do you think your gender identity had on your experience of menopause?

My response was rather, erm, pointed.

Thanks for the link, @Dartfordwarblerautumn.

Mine too. I said “What a ridiculous question” and pointed out later that if I wasn’t a WOMAN I wouldn’t be going through the menopause at all.

@tilder

Where is this questionnaire from and who gets the information?

It is a government consultation survey. It came about as a result of a public petition to get the government to make it mandatory for employers to have menopause policies to support heir workers. The government is now acquiring information of the scale and scope of the issues affecting women. You can read what it is used for at the start of the survey. Government has used this process for consultation on everything from changes to GRA to changing organ donation auto consent.

That survey is weird! I went back a page just so I could put a comment in one of the free text boxes about the male/ female question (Q21). I wrote reams of stuff in the ‘anything else’ box too! I think I understand the early question asking if your male or female; I think it’s probably aimed at female to male transgender and non-binary people. I can imagine they will have a particularly difficult time emotionally during menopause that’s not just related to the symptoms created by the chemical imbalance. It may feel like an assault on their sense of identity since it wouldn’t fit with their self view. I don’t have any medical or psychological expertise in that area, I just think is would make a difficult life stage even more difficult to deal with