The preferred gender of the mother
Doctors will be banned from giving transgender children a new NHS record after it emerged that biological sex had been erased from official data.
Wes Streeting, the health secretary, said it was wrong that doctors were changing the NHS numbers of children if they changed gender. He has told the health service to stop giving out new NHS numbers to under-18s.
A review commissioned by the last government and released on Wednesday found that the word “gender” started to replace “sex” in the collection of data in the 1990s and that for the past ten years “robust and accurate data on biological sex” had been lost.
That’s what happens when you tell lies about what sex people are.
Cancer referrals were missed and previous convictions were overlooked because biological sex had been erased from official data on health, crime and education. In medicine, adults and children have been able to request their gender is changed on their medical record. When this happens, a new NHS number and, therefore, medical record would be created.
The review, led by Professor Alice Sullivan of University College London, reported how in one case a paediatrician said that a child had been brought up in the preferred gender of the mother, which was different to their birth sex.
Oh really?! What happened to people are who they say they are? Now they’re who their mothers say they are, even if that means they are the opposite of what their mothers say they are? Parents can now stick their children with a fake “gender” of their choosing? In infancy???
“[The mother] had gone to the GP and requested a change of gender/NHS number when the baby was a few weeks old and the GP complied. Children’s social care did not perceive this as a child protection issue,” the doctor reported.
How does that even work? We are told and told and told that what’s in the gender-haver’s mind is what counts, not what anyone else perceives. How can a parent possibly “know” that an infant is trans? Does it fill its diaper in a peculiarly gendered way?
I dunno. Looks to me like special (correctional?) institutions might be in order for those who thunk up all this transbullshit in the first place.
I speak as one who identifies as a giraffe; preferred pronouns: eeyore, moooo.
If the replacement of ‘sex’ with ‘gender’ began in the 1990s I suspect it had less to do with trans ideology and more about sparing people’s delicate sensibilities by censoring language. Which confirms my suspicions that no euphemism is truly harmless. Once you abdicate a commitment to clear and accurate language, nonsense will inevitably appear to colonise the empty space you have created.
Did someone, perhaps in the Victorian era, create the problem by coining that most anodyne of euphemisms ‘sexual intercourse’ thus inadvertently making sex sexy and causing people of our time to feel that accurately naming the most basic biological fact of human existence was just a little bit vulgar? Unfortunately it’s a fact that ‘sex’ is skunked as a neutral description of the fact of human sexual difference. I don’t believe it can be reclaimed despite heroic efforts to do so. I think we really just have to move on and find new language.