how can you have a smear test when you haven't got a cervix?

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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5266833/NHS-breast-cancer-screening-not-offered-trans-men.html

Story basically saying that anyone registered as "female" is being invited for a smear. So transwomen who do not have and who have never had a cervix, are getting the letter. On the flip side, transmen who have not had a mastectomy are not being invited for breast screening.

This is surely total madness? I don't have my cervix any more after a hysterectomy, and that was cause for celebration. Surely even the most ardent transactivist wouldn't expect to be called for a smear?

I don't mean "later", I mean by other people in the thread.

According to the bumph with the Scottish GRA consultation , the CHI number which is your Scottish NHS number denotes your sex (odd or even number) When you have a GRC your CHI number is changed, so administratively as far as I can tell there is no way to spot trans identified people. Which means they will be denied all the screening etc normally offered to their sex.

Hackmum but the problem is, and I'm happy to be corrected, is that if a TIM says they are a woman, no one, not even a doctor, could say "no we mean what is your birth sex" because that would be transphobic.

"The woman will receive automatic invitations from the call and recall system until the absence of cervix is formally notified to the programme."

This is also true for those who have had a hysterectomy during which the cervix is also removed. The admin works in the same way for all reasons there is no cervix.

Just asked DH who writes software (public sector but not NHS), they have fairly recently changed titles to include Mx. For 'gender' they allow the option of 'don't want to say'. Of course, this is for an area where sex doesn't actually matter. The NHS needs to recognise there's an issue though and I think it's too far down the pseudo vagina wormhole.