NHS Check your heart age - asks for gender, not sex?!?

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wallyfeatures · 04/09/2018 06:29

Why does this survey ask for the participant's gender, rather than sex?

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MilkTwoSugarsThanks · 04/09/2018 06:35

Because most people don't realise there's a difference?

Because people will put whatever they want regardless of what word they use?

Because it's only a vague guide anyway?

LadybirdsAreBirds · 04/09/2018 06:40

I think some people thing Sex is a dirty word.

Come on NHS. You have learned Biology and all that shit!

MilkTwoSugarsThanks · 04/09/2018 06:43

Tbh I've just done the test, once using female and then using male. Made a whole difference of 1 🤷🏼‍♀️

Witchofwisteria · 04/09/2018 07:07

What's the problem with using the word gender?

(Throws grenade, runs away)

redshoeblueshoe · 04/09/2018 08:37

Well it does explain that if you are transgender you should put the sex you were born. But the test is crap.

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wallyfeatures · 04/09/2018 08:39

precisely LadybirdsAreBirds . What a load of bollocks! Your sex is a biological fact and is what is relevant to the survey.

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KikiMadeMeDoIt · 04/09/2018 08:43

I noticed that. I though it was a load of toffee, it completely ignored exercise which is a massive part of how healthy a heart is. I’m surprised that a survey using actual biology managed to get so much wrong in so little space.

NotTerfNorCis · 04/09/2018 08:44

Until recently, asking for gender instead if sex was totally uncontroversial. It was because people were squeamish about putting 'sex' on an official form. There was that old joke: Sex? Yes please.

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