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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Rights and responsibilities in GP if gender-critical

30 replies

Healthanon · 25/02/2023 19:36

Good evening all.
I was wondering if anyone could give me advice on my rights and responsibilities working in general practice as a gender critical woman.

To be clear, I want to treat all people with respect and dignity and provide them with all the health care and information that they need or require. I am very happy to call anyone by whatever first name they like but I am gender critical and don’t want to use any gendered terms at all if possible.
Is this ok? I could call all people M. As a title? M. Jones, M. Smith, etc.

Any trans people out there, would you find this acceptable? How about non trans people? Would you be ok not being called Mr/Miss/Ms?

If someone complained about me because of this will I get fired?

OP posts:
Soontobe60 · 25/02/2023 22:44

KohlaParasaurus · 25/02/2023 22:13

Can't say I find it a problem. If someone wants us to use a title or pronouns that aren't the obvious sex based ones it's their responsibility to let the practice know, and if anyone makes a mistake the worst that might happen is that they'll be politely corrected. Providing optimal care to individual transgender patients (most of mine in recent years have been young transmen) and referring to them according to their chosen gender while being mindful of their biological sex has never been difficult.

So you are happy to positively affirm gender ideology? Have you read the Cass review? Do you prescribe opposite sex hormones to these young women, or refer them on for mastectomies?

KohlaParasaurus · 26/02/2023 05:21

Soontobe60 · 25/02/2023 22:44

So you are happy to positively affirm gender ideology? Have you read the Cass review? Do you prescribe opposite sex hormones to these young women, or refer them on for mastectomies?

I'm not sure why you have leapt to that assumption. I have read the Cass report and have a firm grasp of biology. It's never been my role as a GP to make a diagnosis of gender dysphoria or refer patients directly to gender services or initiate puberty blockers or cross sex hormones, and it would be rude and beyond unhelpful if I were to pick fights over their identity in a medical consultation with trans identified patients who turned up in my consulting room looking for - and being fully entitled to - the same standard of care and courtesy anyone else would receive just because I haven't bought into gender ideology.

WarriorN · 26/02/2023 07:12

Gps have their own social networking forums so I don't believe this post is real

Spidey66 · 01/03/2023 08:51

The OP doesn't say she's a GP though, just she's going to work in a GP practice. Could be an admin or HCA.

howdoesatoastermaketoast · 01/03/2023 21:23

insofar as possible I would drop the use of titles altogether as old fashioned

but I wouldn't suggest trying to make up a new one.

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