Out of hours doctor service - offers chaperone of "the same gender"

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I was at my local hosiptal out of hours service recently.

There is a sign on the counter saying:

Chaperone?
If you would like anyone of the same gender to accompany you during an examination, or at any other stage of your appointment, please talk to a member of our team.

This does not seem right to me. Surely I have the right to a chaperone of the same sex as me - i.e. female.

What is the best way to go about challenging this?

Surely the equality laws mean that if I as a female ask for a female chaperone then the hospital would be obliged to provide me with someone of the female sex rather than someone of the same gender who could be someone of the male sex eg a transwoman?

Can someone more knowledgeable tell me where to look for information on where the equality laws state that sex can be the decider rather than gender. In this case there will be 100s of women using a service compared to the number of staff who may be male but has a female gender so surely one transwomen's rights would not be place above 100s of women?

I’d just ask “do you mean sex?” And asked for the sign to be changed. I think using “gender” as a euphemism is inadvertently causing problems.

Before challenging it I would clarify if it's not simply the incorrect usage of the word gender rather than sex

Are you on twitter? WPUK are going after the NHS on there about their failure to understand the difference between Sex and Gender. No response yet, but they’ve been successful with several councils.

I would think the person who made the sign meant a female. Up until about a year or 2 ago i always heard gender used interchangeably with sex while growing up, in school, on forms etc.
Its only now certain media and social media areas that seem to have focused in on transsexuals and gender no longer being used as a biological term that its also used to be none biological.

Its used in other places like 'sex scans' still being called 'gender scans' too.

OK - I'll write and ask them if they mean sex rather than gender.

Should hospitals have policies then on how to treat transgender staff to ensure that if someone asks for someone of the same sex they do not end up with someone transgender of the opposite sex?

I also think that a lot of confusion is being caused by a prissy unwillingness to use the word s-e-x. I am fascinated by the suspicion that some of the mess we are in right now is simply down to this, and it having been taken advantage of by those who would do harm to women.

They obviously mean sex.

They've set themselves up for a challenging if they do mean gender - isn't there over 100 of those. Also, how do you plan for those of us who are gender fluid?

Should hospitals have policies then on how to treat transgender staff to ensure that if someone asks for someone of the same sex they do not end up with someone transgender of the opposite sex?

They should, if anywhere should observe sex differences, it's a hospital. I've had lots of assurances that no one would put a patient in that position, but I have yet to see anything in writing.

I also think that a lot of confusion is being caused by a prissy unwillingness to use the word s-e-x.

I'm sure that's true.

And by avoiding the word 'sex' and adopting the word gender, it helps to shoot the gender agenda in the foot and show it up for the identity madness that it is, when you try to apply it in the real world.

If there are many genders 50+ - how the fuck are you meant to match up someone wanting a chaperone for their visit with the right gender?

" Hi I'm agender, I need an agender chaperone. Yes Ze, let me find one from our extensive list of hospital volunteers, who are falling over themselves to volunteer here, once they've finished social-justice-warrioring all over the internet "

I sure that they mean sex which used to correlate with gender by and large until what, three years ago?