Yours may have too.
twitter.com/HairyLeggdHarpy/status/1062360988702466048
medium.com/@anneharperwright/sex-gender-the-nhs-bb86b0c3ebb
Our records are officially supposed to hold our sex. There is a suite of documentation explaining how the NHS systems should be structured to hold BOTH sex (compulsory, and defined as phenotypic sex observed by a registrar at birth) AND gender (for those who wish that to be captured as well, defined as 'how a patient currently describes themselves')
These data standards were written and approved in 2009. They are full of warnings about the risks of conflating sex and gender. They are very prescriptive of how systems should be designed to keep people safe, by keeping the two concepts clearly separate. They were approved.
They are supposed to have been implemented.
They haven't been.
Your own records may have a 'current gender identity' field which is populated, and a 'phenotypic sex' field...which is blank.
Mine SHOULD look like this, according to the NHS Sex and Gender Data Standards:
Current Gender: Unknown
Sex: Female.
Instead they look like this:
Current Gender: Female
Sex: Unpopulated
All the detail, and links to the documents are included in the medium article.