Persons of child bearing potential

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Or they could have said Women and girls, given that they have also covered off transgender and non-binary people who were born female further down.

Are you shitting me? That is an ACTUAL sign in the NHS?

Do you know what trust?

They also have used gender not sex. Very disappointing.

I am currently pregnant and in my NHS trust you will see the word mother or women nowhere! It’s birthing parent, pregnant person, birthing person. So depressing. When i asked about it I was given a lecture about inclusion.

Where do they think this stops? Why do they think the word "pregnant" is still acceptable? What about when someone decides they should say "offspring-containing"?

@AdriannaP

I am currently pregnant and in my NHS trust you will see the word mother or women nowhere! It’s birthing parent, pregnant person, birthing person. So depressing. When i asked about it I was given a lecture about inclusion.

That is so depressing

Where the hell is that?

What a load of fucking hogwash.

Absolutely sick of this bullshit.

This was Radiology in Manchester NHS Trust for the PP who asked.

I would just be scared of letting such clueless people near my reproductive organs. I wouldn’t want gynaecological surgery in that hospital. One might as well call plumbers in (although probably most plumbers are more fact-oriented).

No-one is ever going to convince me that the total amount of "harm" caused by using "woman" inflicted upon a few rainbow hairs is less than the total amount of harm inflicted by not using it on the other 99% of the female population.

A few women still have 'child bearing potential' beyond 55 so it's a bit ageist as well as disrespectful to the majority of women and girls, and may not be clear to women who don't have English as a first language.

The nurse asked me about the possibility of being pregnancy when I went for my first COVID jab... I'm 60 so some mild hilarity ensued, but the other HCP there had come across a very late 50s ivf expectant mother.

So... pretty rubbish at inclusion, that notice.

Gaslighting worthy of psychopaths.

It might be worth any local wanting to make a formal complaint to state the obvious that age of consent in this country is 16 and that 12-13 year olds are not a ‘person of childbearing potential’ as sex to conceive is statutory rape - unless this is what the Trust is advocating.

And then they have the cheek to talk about not being discrimitory underneath.

I'm offended by being called a "person of child bearing potential" because I'm celibate and not through choice.
Referring to me as such, or asking if I could be pregnant is a reminder of all the sex I'm not getting. Women would suffice. Or women and girls if we need to cover under 18s.

I'm infertile and have no potential....

@NecessaryScene

Where do they think this stops? Why do they think the word "pregnant" is still acceptable? What about when someone decides they should say "offspring-containing"?

Honestly surprised it’s still called maternity ward not birthing ward.

"We are legally obliged to ask persons of child bearing potential ..."

How do they identify which "persons of child bearing potential" they will ask if there's a chance of them being pregnant? Are they asking all people who appear to be aged 12-55? Or just people who look like girls or women in that age range?

As OP pointed out, the rainbow-logo'd section at the bottom makes it clear that female-at-birth transgender and non-binary people should notify staff, and the reason for doing so.

‘If your gender was female at birth’

What does this mean?

“We are committed to ensuring patients are free from discrimination regardless of their gender or sexual orientation - although we don’t understand that the top half of this sign demonstrated why it is sometimes necessary to discriminate.

Is illegal discrimination allowed on the basis of sex? We don’t know. That is the protected characteristic that dare not speak its name for fear of offending delicate sensibilities.

Should you trust us as radiographers? Probably not…”

FFS! Is this all being driven by the minuscule number of trans men that actually give birth, or is it just all about people feeling pleased with themselves for being “inclusive” and not wanting to offend the TRA lobby?

It’s so offensive!

It doesn't even make sense, as in it is just so clumsy. Average reading age is 11, stop with the over complication.

Honestly surprised it’s still called maternity ward not birthing ward.

How many of these braniacs do you think learnt Latin?

I bet they only ask women

How do you know if you are a person of child bearing potential? I'd best flag this up to my brother and DP.

How are they possibly going to establish this? How does the person aged between 12-55 know if they have child bearing potential? Presumably anyone between those ages should be careful.