How the obsession with gender captured the public sector

Perhaps more important than how is why. Yet people will still claim they are an oppressed minority.

How the obsession with gender captured the public sector

"The NHS

An NHS working group warned in 2009 of the dangers of conflating sex and gender and now, in the health service, data on biological sex is entirely missing from some patient data.

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.

Consent forms for treatment or vaccinations also ask about gender identity, with potentially disastrous effects.

“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.”

Other examples were recently highlighted in a separate report published earlier this month by The Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender (CAN-SG), SEEN Health and Women’s Rights Network on NHS data corruption.

They included 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.

Dr Louise Irvine, co-chairman of CAN-SG, says: “Sex impacts health in many different ways. The risk and prevalence of health conditions varies, which have implications for diagnosis and screening; men and women can present with different symptoms, for example in the case of a heart attack; and sex determines the parameters of what is considered normal on some blood tests and other important diagnostic checks.”

But patients can also be affected another way. The General Medical Council recently admitted that more than 60 doctors in the UK had changed their gender. There have been several cases where a member of medical staff has claimed to be one sex, but is in fact, another. This has raised questions as to whether – for example – a female patient can consent to an intimate examination by someone she is told is a woman doctor, when in fact the doctor is male.

In 2017, the NHS was forced to apologise to a woman who was left “embarrassed and distressed” after a nurse with stubble and a deep voice offered to carry out her cervical smear test at a clinic run by the Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.

The woman requested a female NHS nurse to perform the intimate procedure but was dismayed when a staff member with “an obviously male appearance” greeted her. When the patient pointed out the mistake, the nurse replied: “My gender is not male. I’m a transsexual.”...

The police force

Criminals – including sex offenders – are being permitted to choose a self-identified “gender” rather than their biological sex and police and courts are complying.

Recent examples include male sex offenders Isla Bryson, Lexi Secker and alleged child rapist Maddison Wilson, who were all recorded as “women” by both the police, the courts and press.

This week, registered sex offender John Leslie Graham – who had changed his name to Chleo Sunter and self-identified as female – was referred to as “she” in court...

The Sullivan Review said: “Many police forces record crimes by male suspects as though they were committed by women at the request of the perpetrator or based on how a person ‘presents’.”

As Sullivan said, this distortion of biological reality can lead to significant risks. Barrister Sarah Vine, KC says: “Reliable information about those in the criminal justice system is vital, both to the system and to society as a whole. Operational policing, risk-assessment and safeguarding rely on accurate information on individuals and robust data on trends of offending and victimisation.”

One serving officer told the Police Sex Equality and Equity Network (SEEN) that when arresting a naked suspect it was obvious that he was male but he claimed to be female. “The custody officer told the female police officer to search the subject but she was not comfortable doing so. However because the ‘gender’ of the prisoner had been recorded as female, she was then ordered to do so.”

As well as prisoners, several male police officers are now thought to be identifying as female (and vice versa) leading women’s rights campaigners to express concern about them searching women.

Cathy Larkman, former senior police officer and policing lead for the Women’s Rights Network said: “The role of the police is to apply the law and to keep the public safe, not to be activists for radical social change, or to deceive and mislead the public.

“Police often issue descriptions of people who may be a risk to the public. Yet if we are describing a brown-haired six-foot woman, when in fact it is a man, this could have obvious consequences – it will make it more difficult to find him and he could commit other crimes in that period.”

Larkman says this is particularly concerning when it comes to serious crimes such as murder. “The police utilise the Home Office Large Major Enquiry System (HOLMES) for serious investigations and if data is inputted incorrectly – ie a man is described as female – he could be disregarded as a suspect.”

Schools

Many schools and colleges across the UK have been adopting policies that have replaced “sex” with “gender”.

“As soon as a child self-identifies as the opposite sex, schools commonly change their ‘gender’ on official IT systems, often without consulting the parents,” says a spokesman from The Bayswater Group, a support network for parents with trans-identifying children.

“We are hearing this from parents all over the UK. It seems to be in every school – state, private, religious, secondary and primary – and it has led to safeguarding failures such as children being housed with the opposite sex on school trips and using the incorrect bathrooms.

“There is also a risk that in the event of an emergency, they would be treated as the opposite sex in hospital or by the police. As a consequence, schools are failing to safeguard children from serious risks of harm.”

One father from London said that he was shocked to find that his six-year-old son’s primary school was recording “gender” rather than “sex”, and that one of the little girls in his class was now – at the request of her parents – being referred to as a boy.

“I’ll never forget helping out on one school trip where the children were taken off the coach to go to the toilets and she was led to the boys’ toilets,” he says. “I went with them and it was really awkward because as the other boys were using urinals, she had to go into the cubicle and came out looking – I don’t know – sad, self-conscious? I’ve never forgotten it as I’ve never seen that expression on a child’s face before.”

To avoid this, some educational institutions have been adding more “gender neutral” – ie mixed sex – bathrooms to facilitate access for pupils who identify as the opposite sex. But this has also created problems.

In 2023, a teenage boy was arrested over four allegations of “serious sexual assault” at an Essex school where three of the alleged attacks took place in lavatories used by boys and girls.

In the same year, a teenage girl at a secondary school in Coventry was injured when a male classmate allegedly kicked down a cubicle door to photograph her.

Brighton and Hove parents raised concerns in 2016 when they were asked to support their three and four-year-olds to choose which gender, if any, they identify with when accepting a place for primary schools.

Government and the Armed Forces

... Eleanor Frances, who managed a team of policy officials and worked with government ministers, was hounded out of the Civil Service after whistleblowing about discrimination and breaches of impartiality on sex and gender issues.

Her concerns included the introduction of “self-identification” in government premises, allowing any male person to access female single-sex facilities, with the threat of disciplinary action against any women who might object.

Frances also highlighted a politicised “climate of fear” around Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). Those who questioned “sex and gender” feared they would suffer negative professional consequences. She also cited the adoption of an internal “Gender Identity and Intersex” policy, without proper consultation, following a Stonewall workplace assessment...

lawyer Elspeth Duemmer Wrigley, chairman of the Civil Service Sex Equality and Equity Network (SEEN – representing civil servants who are critical of gender in the workplace) is currently being sued for – among other things – stating during a seminar that ‘“only women menstruate”.

One civil servant says: “Senior civil servants have clambered over each other to show off their woke credentials by advocating for organisations like Stonewall who blatantly push measures that are not compliant with the Equality Act 2010.

“This has embedded gender ideology in the Civil Service and resulted in complete overreach by an external organisation that started to dictate UK policy. Despite recent government edicts to withdraw from Stonewall diversity champion schemes, their lasting legacy is one of total denial of biological sex.”

“Not only do the majority of the UK population not support this ideology, even within the Civil Service the majority reject this radical view but are too scared to speak up.”

The consequences of inaccurate sex data collection appear to run deep and wide within the public services overseen by the Civil Service. Even death certificates for children now ask if the child’s sex was “male, female, indeterminate and unknown” and ask for the child’s gender at time of death.

The Ministry of Defence also seems to have succumbed, to some degree, to the ideology. The Sullivan Review found that a Royal Navy sexual harassment survey asked for participants’ gender identity rather than their sex, despite its relevance to the subject matter.

The MoD has at least 10 staff networks for those in the Civil Service and Armed Forces dedicated to gender issues. These include the Royal Navy Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity/Expression Network and the RAF’s Gender Network, the latter writing an MoD blog post in October 2023 celebrating International Pronouns Day."

Clearly, "transphobia" is the reason trans people have worse outcomes because of confusion over their biological sex.

Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy never happens with trans kids.

Transphobic patients who abuse trans staff by requesting someone with a different biological sex need to be refused treatment, because violence against staff is not allowed.