Patient sex in clinical pathways

[mids2019]

Does anyone know if the impact of self gender identification has been fully realised.

I was once in meeting where it was out forward all patients (male and female) would have to be asked pregnancy status (met with a few chuckles at the time and dismissed).

However is this going to be made more serious with the need to identify pregnancy status without being fully confident about biological sex?

It is vital for swift and accurate diagnosis in healthcare that biological sex is known. It doesn't matter which sex you identify with - men have prostates - women endometria for example.

Will transgender legislation add unnecessary confusion and potential for error in stressed clinical environments?

Did you start a thread about this earlier today?

I have always found the could you be pregnant question all the time intrusive and annoying

I understand why it's asked though

How are men going to react to it ?!

@NiceGerbil when my late uncle was prescribed thalidomide during his cancer treatment they had to ask him if there was any chance of him being pregnant, he thought it was hilarious.
This was over 10 years ago. It's the same for xrays

That's really interesting.

I didn't know they asked men if they could be pregnant for x-rays?

Is this because of the sort of thing the OP talks about? What a waste of time.

I also think there's a real risk that quite a few men would find that question insulting (challenging their masculinity, being asked a question for women) and could really kick off.

I think that the x-ray 1 is more of a standard arse covering tick box thing as the last time I had to take my ds for an x-ray they asked everyone in the waiting room from the woman in her 80s to my then nursery age son the same list of questions .
Though we are in Scotland so that could part of it