What should your NHS Medical Record hold about you? Sex or gender Identity?

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Twitter Poll

There are very specific rules within the NHS relating to what sex/gender data should be held on our medical records and how it should be used.

(And those rules are not being followed)

But if you're on twitter you might be interesting to see how this poll is working out.
I'm really interested in any responses from anyone working in the NHS who ever handles medical records. Do they know whether they are handling sex or gender data?

Someone else posted this a while back (thank you) but it stuck with me as I think it’s very relevant to the current debate. Your NHS records are not just about you, it is used to gather statistics and data which can help with research. As other posters have pointed out this could negatively effect research into effective women’s treatment.

It’s an interesting talk by itself anyway:

www.ted.com/talks/paula_johnson_his_and_hers_healthcare/up-next?language=en

twitter.com/HairyLeggdHarpy/status/1062360988702466048

Has this already been posted?

Aren't systems also a way of coping with a world that completely overloads your brain?

oops the last one was on the wrong thread. (Although to be fair, I'm not sure how the NHS can cope if the systems don't work...)

I gave blood today and red cross asked me if I was "OK with being recorded as female". If I had said No record me as male would they have used male cutoffs for bmi / weight / iron levels??? I hope they would have put down male just to humor me...