Letter stressing the importance of the word woman in NHS communications

[2Rebecca]

Apologies if posted before. I couldn't see a post on it. Yesterday the Clinical Advisory Network on sex and Gender CAN-SG which I am involved in published an open letter to NHS chiefs in the UK stressing the reasons why the word woman should be retained in NHS campaigns and literature.
The letter is here can-sg.org/2023/02/23/open-letter-to-nhs-chiefs-the-importance-of-the-word-woman/ if anyone wants to see it

Some sanity at last!

What a brilliant letter.
Thank you 2Rebecca for posting it and being part of it. The determination of so many powerful individuals to turn the NHS into an organisation that's a hostile and actually dangerous environment for woman and girls must be challenged.

You can sign it.

I've signed.

Thank you OP for posting this. I’ve just signed it with my full name and NHS title. Happy to be in such good company.

Signed as a patient. Thank you.

Excellent letter. Clear, well -argued, authoritative and unapologetic.

Love it. Signed!

Signed.

Me too, signed

Thank you, that's an excellent letter and I was happy to sign it.

Excellent letter.

Same

Wow, this stuff makes my blood boil!

"This studious avoidance of reference to women, even in relation to getting pregnant, leads to healthcare content that is nonsensical to the public. For example, “If you are under 40 and have regular sex without using contraception, there is an 8 in 10 chance you will get pregnant within 1 year” by definition includes men in the potential for pregnancy."

Very timely and necessary.

Thanks OP.

I particularly noticed that my smear test reminder this week did use the word woman.
I was pleased to see it.

Such a good letter - thank you for posting and for your involvement in this.

Thanks to all the amazing women that keep on fighting fir common sense! I've signed.

Mine too

And this is my breast screening one (although I am still trying to bottom out exactly how they are defining female these days)

Signed. Thank you

Signed.

Fabulous letter.

I particularly liked the section about how using person, rather than woman, means that the statistics are nonsense.

Signed, as retired hospital doc and as patient. Excellent letter, and good timing- the tide is v def turning.

Brilliant brilliant letter. Have signed. Well done OP and everyone else who contributed to this

Signed. Thank you for this. I got embroiled in a conversation about this with a colleague this week and nearly gave myself an aneurysm.

Signed. Excellent letter