Personalized organ inventories
Sex Matters reports An Epic crisis is unfolding in the NHS.
Since October, several NHS trusts in England have been using new £450 million NHS patient-data software produced by US-based IT company Epic Systems. This has been programmed by local teams to record the “gender identity” of babies. For adults, the system has been programmed to register patients according to their “legal sex” rather than their actual sex, and to record men and women who don’t express a trans identity as “cisgender”. It asks medical staff to complete “organ inventories” of the reproductive features of all patients.
The new electronic patient record software was launched at the start of October at hospitals including King’s College Hospital, and Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital. It is also being used by Frimley Health NHS Trust, South London, Maudsley NHS Trust and several other hospitals across London and England.
On 26th November, the Mail on Sunday reported that a whistleblowing midwife had evidence that babies were being registered according to “gender identity” on discharge forms under the new system at London’s Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, and King’s College Hospital, which Sex Matters’ Maya Forstater called “absurd and chilling”
How can babies possibly have a gender identity?? They don’t have any kind of “identity” of the kind that means “how I think of myself inside my head” – they don’t even know they’re babies, or human, or alive, or on Planet Earth. They don’t really “know” anything at all – because they’re babies.
On the form, patients are registered according to their “legal sex” rather than their actual sex.
There are default settings for men and women as “cisgender” if they do not express a trans identity. As reported by The Telegraph, the form asks for information on a patient’s sexual orientation, gender, sex assigned at birth, preferred pronouns, if they have transitioned, to what extent, and what future plans they have, if any, to change gender.
I trust there is also a place on the form for vampires, and one for werewolves, and one for gremlins, and one for witches, and…
Staff are then asked to fill in an “organ inventory”, including “organs the patient currently has”, “organs present at birth”, “organs surgically enhanced or constructed” and “organs hormonally enhanced”.
Under each section is a list of possible organs to add, including penis, vagina, uterus, cervix, breasts, prostate, testes and ovaries. Healthcare staff then have to click “add” on the relevant organs to specify which genitalia the patient has, and at which point they were acquired.
And by the time staff have finished all that it’s quitting time, and the patient has to make a new appointment.
As Helen Joyce said in The Telegraph, this anti-scientific fringe ideology has been imported wholesale from America. Activists within the NHS have attempted to impose it on the UK’s healthcare system by stealth. What they are trying to do is incredibly dangerous, and will damage patient care. It’s also anti-democratic, since it’s being presented to NHS users as a fait accompli.
The fact that healthcare employees have not felt able to raise concerns about a grossly flawed new process shows the extent of the fear that now dominates NHS workplace environments, thanks to gender-ideology indoctrination.
Oh you mean fear of shunning and hostility and bullying? For this noble cause of pretending everyone is like a doll with an extensive wardrobe of customized organs?
This is like hearing hoofbeats and assuming zebras. They might as well just come out and call us all “non-trans.” We still haven’t gotten ourselves out of the age in which “male” was the standard and default for everything, with women being considered aberrant, non-standard, or flawed. Now “trans” is the standard, and everyone else is ho-hum, run-of-the-mill “cis.” It’s an attempt at normalizing the abnormal, of turning the impossible into mental wallpaper instead of a material and moral imposition.
To be honest, when I saw the title of the post, and started reading it, I’d thought some rich dude was subverting the NHS to come up with lists of personal potential organ donors, should they ever need to harvest one at short notice. I think that would have been less sinister. This sneaking in ideology via software is pretty scary, as well as a stupid waste of time and money. It’s about as worthwhile as building a system in which it is assumed that everyone has polydactyly, and forcing staff to go in and enumerate the number of digits on each hand ad foot of every patient, and then ask whether or not patients ever planned to have digits added or removed. Are the parties responsible going to plead ignorance, or fall on their swords? This is a little more involved than adopting US software where there’s nothing more awkward being imported than the American spelling of words like “colour” and “neighbour”. This is much less benign, and intended to be so.
Is Wurlitzer one of the options?
They better have a spot for otter identity. TOAO!
@1, I don’t believe the Epic Systems software came out of the box from the U.S. with all the pronouns, etc. already there, it does seem to have been a local tweak by the NHS trusts involved, at least that what “local teams” above would imply.
I did do a brief look into Epic Systems and found they’re based in Madison, Wisconsin so it wouldn’t surprise me if they designed their medical record keeping software to be able to offer the Full Trans option, given how Madison is very liberal city. What I also found to my dismay is that Epic Systems is partnering with Microsoft to develop an AI chatbot to basically automate the documentation of doctor – patient interactions. Given how ChatGPT is quite resistant to any denial of gender identity, I’m not optimistic as a gender critical person myself.
Story here: Epic and Microsoft partner up – AI chatbot technology could transform medical records
Ideology aside, Epic Systems has some seriously bad karma. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Systems#Criticisms_and_controversies
Epic is a huge presence in the Madison area. The organization I work for is based at UW, and we get a lot of refugees from Epic as project managers. Epic tends to recruit college grads, give them mad organizing skills, and burn them out with overwork after a year or so.
The other thing I know about them is that they have a huge conference every year that (as I found out the hard way) takes up just about every hotel room from around Milwaukee to the Wisconsin Dells.
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A consequence of ‘centering’ trans people: service to 99%+ people is degraded for the sake of the special few.
So no option that doesn’t presuppose acceptance of the conceptual framework of gender ideology then. Nor is there any option that doesn’t imply any claims about what’s going on inside people’s heads. Accepting the “cisgender” label is a concession that:
Once again, either “cis men” relate to “trans men” the way fruit bats relate to baseball bats (i.e. not at all, it’s just a bad pun), or I’m not a cis man. Indeed the only correct option would have to be “not applicable”.
Bjarte, one place I went to had a space for ‘other’. I stated that I do not identify as either man or woman; I am a woman. If I offended anyone, it wasn’t mentioned. I suspect for a lot of people (this was a doctor’s office), they are just using a software they purchased, and that’s how it comes. It’s an easy way to get trans-friendly points.
On the other hand, this software sounds much more deliberate about it. I can’t imagine doctors have a lot of time to do ‘organ inventories’. Neither do their nurses.