Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards

• Struggleandgrunt@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You are not assigned male, you fall in the sex category male at birth. Sex is immutable and cannot be changed unlike gender, therefore in wards based on sex you will be put in a male ward. Unless as the article lays out you get your own room, which is the likely and most preferred outcome for all inpatients.

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  • apotheotic@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you knew as much as you try to put on about biological sex, you’d know that’s its far, far more complicated than “male or female” and there are plenty of people who are assigned one thing at birth which doesn’t factually align with their biological sex. So yes, it is an assignment.

    I fail to see how a rational inpatient would give the slightest fuck if the girl a bed over from them had a cock when they were born so i dont know what preferred outcome they have in this, and I can speak as a trans person to the fact that it would not be my preferred outcome to be singled out and put in my own room. I’d choose it over being in the male ward, but its not my “preferred outcome”.

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  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What world do you live in where spare rooms on the NHS are widely available? Because I’d like to go there, since it certainly isn’t reality.

    You are not assigned male, you fall in the sex category male at birth

    I’m not at birth though anymore am I? I’m not a man and for most purposes I’m not male anymore either. Defining sex by chromosomes only when dictating societal policy which is very much not about chromosomes when it comes to sex segregation is overly reductive and it is completely absurd to place women who transitioned decades ago and have very little physically in common with the male sex alongside the male sex for literally no reason.

    The only motivation for this absurdity is to hurt and ostracize trans people.

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    My NHS sex marker says F and has since I’ve had an NHS number and I never even changed my name from a very obviously male one. It’s almost as if this whole charade is pretty absurd and trans women being women and for the most part female is self-evident.

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