UK Politics

Wes Streeting yet again jumping at the chance to make trans people's lives worse. Honestly don't think 'Tory-lite' does him justice anymore.

Some context to who wrote this "damning independent review":

The biased nature of this review was already clear. Not just from the leading questions used by the survey which presuppose that gender diversity and those researchers engaged in work to understand it are part of a sinister plot to silence and abuse ‘gender critical feminists’. But also from the way that Sullivan was commissioned by Michelle Donelan, then Conservative Secretary of State for DSIT, who then refused to answer any basic questions about the review’s ethics application.

The most clear sign of bias however is the choice of lead author. Prof. Alice Sullivan is a prominent anti-trans activist and advisory group member of the leading anti-trans lobby group, Sex Matters, notable for her work on UK literacy. The report also contains legal advice written by the husband of the Chair of the Sex Matters’ Trustee Board, Naomi Cunningham, and research was commissioned for the review to an organisation led by fellow member of the Sex Matters’ advisory group Lucy Hunter Blackburn. There is no evidence of the involvement of any trans person in the conducting of this analysis.

I thought the argument here was that biological sex and gender should be recorded as separate fields on NHS records because currently it is inconsistently used leading to clinical risk. The NHS number is not an identity document, it's meant to track your records over your lifetime of treatment in the NHS.

Terf island strikes again. What a bunch of miserable cunts.

I wonder if part of this is because they want to use NHS numbers for children in schools as a consistant identifier. I wouldn't be shocked if that was part of the reasoning.

Surely your actual "record" shouldn't change but the gender property on that record? As such you can change your gender (or name etc) as much as you want and your record is unaffected. From a book keeping / data management point of view that makes sense.

I suspect the real reason is that the NHS has a pretty shit record keeping system such that issuing new NHS numbers makes all that worse. I dunno, would you get a new NHS record if you changed your name? From a record keeping perspective isn't this the same?