Help searching re gender rather than sex on medical forms

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I'm just completing a form to vaccinate my child at school and the form asks for gender not sex. It is compulsory and a drop down (so I can't type how the hell should I know?) I know there have been some previous threads on challenging this. I've tried searching, unsuccessfully.

My brain is quite full at the moment dealing with the aftermath of a family bereavement, an insurance claim for water damage and professional exams. Can anyone point me to a helpful thread (or other resource) that I can use as a template for my complaint about it.

Many thanks

I complained to my NHS Trust about this some years ago (paper form) and was assured that the language would be accurate the following year - which is when they switched to online - then I was left in the same situation as you.

IIRC the excuse I was given from the Trust was that the master document higher up the NHS had gender rather than sex. I was going to write to complain but didn't and from memory the author was very much in the GI camp.

My complaint took the angle that while gender and sex used to be used interchangeably, that was no longer the case. I pointed out that in terms of medicine, sex was far more important to record with a view to looking at uptakes etc and also in case of adverse drug reactions and efficacy which may be sex linked, but how could this be determined if data on sex was not collected?

Finally (as a bit of a concession) I said that as ever younger children were identifying out of their sex, it posed a problem to parents whose children believed they were trans - if a female child identified as a boy, what would go in the gender box and how would that be useful for safety. efficacy and uptake data as above.

I'm disappointed that this is still going on, it's a few years back that I was battling the wording, but I'm sadly not surprised that nothing has changed.

Based on the this there is a strong case for a health intervention on a child it should be a sex not gender based question.
service-manual.nhs.uk/content/inclusive-content/sex-gender-and-sexuality