Doctor will ask for your sexuality now

[AncientLights]

Am sure I've read stuff along these lines before, but this is from today's ( Tues 22 Oct 2019) Sun newspaper:

"GPs and hospitals should quiz every patient on whether they are gay or transgender by the end of next year, MPs say.

The rules would also see OAP care homes asking residents about sexual orientation and gender identity. The recommendations have been made by the Commons' Women & Equality Committee to help improve health care for sexual minorities."

It continues. I would post more but I am on my phone in a greasy spoon, hence reading The Sun.

I will refuse to answer any such questions. This is all part of the normalisation of trans - note the binary option in the first sentence. Seems we have to be trans or gay now. I know that's The Sun's paraphrasing, but it's odious.

A) if it’s in the Sun then it must all be happening exactly as reported, no spin on this

B) equality and diversity monitoring questions are nothing new, it’s a way of checking that marginalised groups are accessing services, ie A Good Thing.

C) ‘prefer not to say’ is always an option

Agree with those who say not everything that mentions trans is a trans! panic! scenario

RE The care home bit, most elderly people won't have a clue what the gender identity questions are about. Also, for those who would care, I've seen reporting of elderly people with dementia who transitioned and have later forgotten that they did so being extremely distressed about the whole thing. How are you going to have a conversation about gender identity with people with dementia? Wouldn't that just add unnecessary stress and confusion for most?

My nan was asked if she didn't mind having a male carer she said I suppose if that's what they send me I said absolutely not because she was very vulnerable she had dementia thought my grandad was alive I was my mom and she was there until she recovered she didn't realise she was in there for the rest of her days I can only imagine what would happen if she was floating around in her reality and came back in time to see a man there offering to change her pad and make her lunch 🤦‍♀️ she never even threw out grandads clothing either she hung it out and returned to to the wardrobe I found it twenty years later still smelling of aftershave