Health form “assigned gender at birth”

[Mittens67]

Just completed my pre mri safety questionnaire for an mri scan tomorrow. Have crossed out “assigned gender at birth” question and written “my sex is a biological fact and I am female”.
Now wondering if I will get a stroppy trans supporter, a secret sign of approval from a fellow sex realist or just a professional non reaction.
Either way I can’t go along with this nonsense and from the NHS above all.
Anyone ever been questioned when they have changed a health form to reflect reality?

It will be fine 💪

Hope your scan goes well.

They’ll just roll their eyes and not reward it with any attention

I don't think the OP is seeking attention other than sensible medical attention.

I always do similar on forms and never been questioned.

I was rather snappy and exasperated with a 999 call handler once though, as I had already told her probable destination, the reg plate, car details and description of the fall down drunk woman who I was watching driving off ….and she then wanted to know whether I identified as female. “What? I am female, obviously. I don’t ’identify’ - I’m AM a woman”.

I always correct it too. Not because I want attention but because I want accurate forms.

A bit like most people do to people stating their pronouns, then.

Thanks all. No idea why one person thinks I want attention?!
Off for my MRI in just a mo.
Anyway, in a strange coincidence I was in a shop this morning and had my first ever experience of coming face to face with a very obvious man dressed as a woman (plus fake boobs) who served me at the till. His colleague referred to him as a “lady” when sending me over to his counter.
Obviously I was polite but inwardly I seethed at being made to be part of his fetish/ delusion/ whatever without my consent.
He was the only person working on returns and I presume I could not have asked to be served by anybody else and would not have done so anyway as I would not want to cause him any distress.
Won’t be shopping there again though.

Came back following my MRI to say that when the radiographer read my questionnaire she laughed and said “We know!”.
Ideology imposed by someone somewhere in senior management of the trust who has bought into Stonewall. The actual medical staff still understand basic biology.

There - told you it would be fine! 🤣👍

Good to hear they treat it with the right amount of seriousness.

My local GP surgery has an e-consultation form
The original format asked ‘gender’

I was asked to give feedback on using the online service and suggested that using ‘sex’ on the forms would be more suitable, especially in a medical/healthcare field!

Don’t know if it was because of my input but it was changed the next week and I feel secretly chuffed 😂

Good for you, OP

It’s annoying when it’s online forms. I did one recently where it was something like “what gender do you feel like” or some nonsense. In those situation I just click the box for not answering the question as I don’t like supporting that idea.

I called 111 the other day and they asked me what gender I identified as. I told them that since this was a medical issue my sex was far more relevant. Don't think they were keen on that.

These are the sort of things I worry about; small pushes in many areas to try to normalise this bollocks.

These things will be harder to get rid of, people might stop noticing and accepting. Ingrained in aspects of our society when other things will be challenged.

So it's really important that these bits of ideology are pushed back on. As many times as is needed.

Therefore less likelihood of gender stuff rearing it's ugly head again in the future.

I cross out gender automatically and write SEX in block caps. It's on all sorts of forms relating to my son's healthcare and really in the field of medicine - accuracy and clarity should rule.

💯

Best of luck. I had a similar ridiculous question in a pre scan form from the NHS and wrote 'don't understand the question'...which many many people probably don't, especially ESOL folk.

My trust had pregnancy questions with gender including: "woman, transitioned from man".
My midwife was reading questions and she was just like "who wrote this? No way that parson could have a baby!"
I was like " yeah, I know. Idiotic".
We laughed about it in every meeting after that initial one.

Good for you. 👍

The issue the NHS have is that a lot of medical care can be sex specific, and that a lot of safety questions are also sex specific.

It’s hard enough questioning 22 or 56 year olds over possible pregnancy. We now have to establish if people have relevant anatomy for their tests/safety! It’s a horribly worded question, but one designed to get a correct answer whilst causing the least offense.

And we need to cause least offense as we don’t have time to deal with the fallout from those who take offense. Plus we’ve all heard stories about the woman transitioned to man who is insistent they need prostate screening etc. Your ‘corrections’ would, I suspect, quietly pleased most staff but also established a pretty definite answer!

12 year olds!! Especially in front of parents.

not 22year olds.