why is NHS asking gender not sex when I register?

[Kit19]

Ive just registered to use online services at my practise and Ive been asked my gender, not my sex. This is the NHS, the organisation I want to fix my body when things go wrong with it. That would be my female sexed body not some random gender ID. How on earth can the NHS properly plan services and know the make up of its patients when it does know what sex they are, only what gender they are? I would have thought that as medical treatment is rooted in treating the reality of people's sexed bodies, not the identify they have in their head it would be really bloody important for the NHS to know what sex I am...

argh does NOT know my sex

It's bizarre - one for the regulatory capture thread. Who convinced the NHS that it would be sensible only to record gender, and not to keep a permanent record of biological sex. All sorts of statistics will become meaningless - not to mention individuals being called for inappropriate screening.

I don't work in the NHS but my understanding is that because of the Gender Recognition Act they have to record both sex and 'gender', but it doesn't happen in practice. This is why men have ended up on women's wards.

medium.com/@anneharperwright/sex-gender-the-nhs-1e8f4e6363a6

Thread:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3396859-Weve-been-lied-to-about-Single-SEX-wards-since-2010

I asked my local GP practice to change my gender to 'none'. They were happy to comply, but warned me that I might miss out on some screening such as smears and mammograms as a result.

I pointed out that I obviously wanted my sex to remain as female and that I assumed that sex-based screening would be based on the sex field, not the gender one.

The practice couldn't assure me of that. I'm not sure they could even find the sex field.

So I wimped out and left everything how it was. But FFS.

Gender is the new in thing. Sex is dead.
Women with penises need smear tests and mammograms too.
The world has gone fucking mad and I want no part of it. The worst thing is I suspect there are a group of trans people who never wanted this either and just wanted to live life in a way that made them happy.

Apparently the NHS should no longer be using the word

'This is why men have ended up on women's wards.'

Threads on here from when the govt promised single sex wards back in the 90s or whenever it was (ages ago) contained documents showing that they wanted single gender not single sex. The nhs questioned the govt on this with concern, govt said its definitely sungle gender we want. They explitictly also said, everyone had to refer to the initiative as single sex wards, so as not to 'confuse' the public.

So at the time the govt were banging on about getting rid of mixed sex wards, they actually took the opportunity to make all wards mixed sex, and misled the public.

This is years ago. Which is really scary.

Im thinking of writing to NHS England and asking for an explanation about how they can predict and plan for the health services women requires if they do not record sex. If they want to record sex AND gender ID that's fine but to not record sex is ridiculous

It doesn't matter. Trans women need smears too. Even those who identify as women Monday, Wednesday and Friday and as a man Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and in Sundays they are a wombat (pronouns wo/wom)