From a GP agreeing to change the documented identity of a baby because its mother was raising it in the “gender” of her choice to male sex offenders being recorded by the police as “women”, data and official statistics have been “corrupted” by extreme gender ideology, a report found this week.
The government-commissioned investigation by Alice Sullivan, a professor of sociology and research specialist at University College London, revealed that public bodies – including the NHS, the police and even the military – have been collecting information on gender identity rather than biological sex since 2015. As a consequence “robust and accurate data” has been lost.
Although a baby’s sex is recorded at birth and the baby is given an NHS number, individuals – or an individual’s parents – can change this marker on request and be given a new NHS number. There is no requirement for any diagnosis of gender dysphoria, treatment or surgery, before this change takes place.
“It can create all kinds of problems,” one London-based GP says. “For instance, treating female patients who identify as male, we have to change the sex or gender marker back to female before the computer system will allow us to request a smear, then we have to remember to change it back again. Separately, patients have to remember to ask for the appropriate sex-based screening because they won’t be reminded if the sex marker is wrong.”
Another doctor adds: “A male patient came to see me with abdominal pain.The computer system stated his sex was male but I suspected he was possibly female so I had to take a guess and dig about in the records to see if there was anything to suggest that, but there was nothing. In the end, it wasn’t until she sheepishly admitted that she was actually female and worried that it might be an ovarian torsion that we could make a proper diagnosis. It was all so confusing.”
In the Sullivan Review, one paediatrician and safeguarding expert who was consulted for the report gave a shocking example of a mother who changed the gender identity of her child when it was still a baby. “The child had been brought up in the preferred gender of the mother which was different to their birth assigned gender. She had gone to the GP and requested a change of gender/NHS number when the baby was a few weeks old and the GP had complied. Children’s Social Care did not perceive this as a child protection issue.”
[A] 32-year-old woman who attended an emergency department with severe abdominal pain. The patient’s electronic medical record said they were male. As a result, diagnosis and care for cord prolapse was significantly delayed and the patient later gave birth to a baby who was stillborn.
In another case, a female who presented as male and whose NHS medical record also indicated they were male, turned out to be pregnant and their foetus was exposed to potentially harmful ionising radiation in error when they were given an x-ray.
Source: From the NHS to the police, how the obsession with gender captured the public sector