People with a cervix

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This has really annoyed me.

Official documentation from the NHS, aka the national medical professionals, should know that it's ONLY women who have a cervix.

What is this non sentence of all women and people with a cervix?

Trans men are women, people can’t change sex.

It’s probably aimed at people who don’t identify as a woman but have a cervix. So the they/them folk. I work with someone who is genetically female but is non binary so wouldn’t identify as a woman but has a cervix.

But she stopped needing a bloody cervical screening which is what the post is about.

I'm in Canada, our local health authority advises "people with a prostate" to get a PSA test.

Fair's fair, I guess.

This one does not bother me at all - probably trying to be able to help people with mental health problems, i.e. those who do not believe in biology. What bothers me is that they ask men if they might be pregnant before every X-ray. That bothers me.

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Suck it up butter cup

I have no idea why people get annoyed by things like this. It's inclusive language. It's a good thing. And it's not just about included trans men it includes those who identify as non binary etc.

Well that's their problem then if they are this ignorant and suffering from a mental illness to such an extent they genuinely believe they no longer have a female body, female internal sex organs and female chromosomes and DNA. Perhaps then it's the survival of the fittest if they don't realise they're still female. In that case they need intensive psychiatric therapy.

Yep. I would feel no sympathy at all for them if they didn't get the tests and something happened. Too bad so sad. Sorry not sorry. They made their bed.

People need to start taking responsibility for their lives, that includes mental health.

I wasn’t trying to be obtuse, I must admit that I was confused because I thought it was always called cervical screening, but then noticed the text underneath that and I’m not sure how to feel about that. I mean the phrasing sounds odd and can be considered offensive, but I suppose it’s supposed to be more inclusive? But isn’t it implied from the cervical screening that it’s people who have a cervix ergo the cervical screening?

Who's denying them access to safe health care? Are the signs saying 'if you are choosing to portray yourself as someone of the opposite sex, you wont get health care'?

By that reckoning, you are erasing transwomen who don't have cervixes.

Only women have a cervix.

If handmaidens want to use dehumanising misogynistic language to appease unwell people with delusions, that's their choice. But don't expect the majority of women to join you.

Which cultures widely understood and accepted that women could opt out of being classed as women?

What righs or obligations were these group of "non-women women" offered which was not available to women as a class?

Trans men ARE women. So they’re already included. And they already know that.

I think the same goes for people who aren’t transmen. We are all responsible for own health and if there is an emotional/mental/physical disorder that’s preventing people from taking care of their own health, I’m not sure whose responsibility that is?

What annoys me more is .. that the start age is 25.. it should start as soon as you become sexual active.
So many young women getting cervical cancer under 25 years of age.

Calling women 'cervix havers' is the ultimate in disdain, so I feel you are gaslighting. Trans people are still either male or female. They don't need any special term, and they still have the same access to their sex-based treatment as everyone else.

The waters should never be muddied on this.

Someone I know got called for cervical screening because he has changed his NHS record to say he is female. He was highly amused by this but if there are men who are getting this kind of letter because they have taken on an alternative gender identity then there will be women in the same position who are missing out on screening because they have changed their records to say they are men.

The solution is not to have this daft wording, it's to have all NHS records reflect sex and not ideologies such as gender identity. People who believe they are trans know exactly what body parts they have so there is no need for this.

It's not the word 'person'. Its cervix. It's that they are reducing WOMEN (trans men) to sex organs.

No one changes sex. Trans men are women and we shouldn't be indulging this mental illness.

Whar about the pretend cats? Why didn't they say people and animals with a cervix.

No. It's not. It disadvantages women for whom English may not be their first language, it erases women from medical literature that should be solely focused on women as the priority, and it is fundamentally ludicrous. Trans men know they are female. There is nothing offensive about acknowledging their biological reality, particularly when it comes to making sure they attend to the basic screening needs their biology demands.

In Edinburgh screening is for people with a cervix. No mention of women.

Then you don't need your cervix checked do you? Nobody is saying all women have a cervix, we're saying that only women have a cervix.