A snip at £450 million
The Telegraph on the NHS organ inventory lunacy:
Doctors are being asked to tick whether patients have a penis or vagina under a new NHS medical form being rolled out at some hospitals.
Medics are being faced with “nonsensical” forms asking for a patient’s “organ inventory” at NHS hospitals using a new £450 million IT system.
The new “sexual orientation and gender identity form” makes up part of someone’s Electronic Patient Record (EPR) on the new system, regardless of the care or relevance to any treatment they are receiving.
It’s kind of like getting used to a new laptop – all kinds of bells and whistles you didn’t ask for and don’t want.
It asks for information around a patient’s sexual orientation, gender, sex assigned at birth, preferred pronouns, if they have transitioned, to what extent, and what future plans they have, if any, to change gender.
It’s the normalization plan. Pretend that almost everyone wants to have special gourmet gender idenninies, and that if you don’t you’re weird and abnormal and kind of wrong.
The medical forms then go on to ask staff to fill in “organs the patient currently has”, “organs present at birth”, “organs surgically enhanced or constructed” and “organs hormonally enhanced”.
It looks even crazier the second time we read it, doesn’t it.
The forms also provide default answers to questions. For example around gender identity, a patient will be by default labelled as “cisgender”, a term used to describe someone who identifies as the sex they were born as.
No, a term used by a few lunatics to describe people who aren’t trans, in other words 99.9 percent of people.
“People are automatically cisgender unless they are classed as trans, even though most people in a hospital wouldn’t know what that means, let alone being classified as something,” a staff member familiar with the new system said.
Well quite. It’s like putting a label on people who aren’t from Mars, or 100 feet tall, or 500 years old. We don’t need to label people as not-this-thing-nobody-is. Everybody is “cis.” Some people claim not to be, but they’re either delusional or lying.
Women’s rights campaigners have blamed activists for trying to impose it “by stealth”.
Helen Joyce, author and director of advocacy at Sex Matters, said the “anti-scientific fringe ideology has been imported wholesale from America”.
Sorry. Sorry sorry sorry. I apologize for my people.
Do these persons know what is a vulva?
Do these persons know what is a vagina?
chigau, if they don’t know what is a man and what is a woman, how would they?
To be fair, lots of people (not just transphiliacs) don’t know the difference between a vagina and a vulva.
Or no one is. “Cis” is no more applicable outside the conceptual framework of gender ideology than the idea of being “clear” (of “body thetans”) is outside the conceptual framework of Scientology.
Well, that’s (one of the many reasons) why I don’t have a laptop. Desktops only, please. Bonus: you can put all sorts of pretty RGB lights and stuff inside them so that they match the theme of whatever room they’re in.
I may have spent multiple hours matching my computer to the violet of my desk chair.
The list
(Why did the author change to quotes half way through? Editorial cleanup please!)
Can be replaced with
“…a patient’s sexual orientation, sex, preferred pronouns, and medical history.” And the pronoun reference I left in not because I think doctors should ask for them during the consultation, but because it may be handy to have a dedicated space to record such if volunteered. The task of a doctor is not to hold forth about the silliness of the concept, and consult times are limited enough as they are so they may as well avoid the buttons that will put their patient’s back up.
#5 Mine are just linked to CPU temperature. Red means let the poor thing rest.
This is, of course, asinine, but it may not be quite as abysmally outrageous as the quoted story makes it out to be. I suspect that this was not the point of the £450m IT upgrade; rather, that it was a ‘feature’ that some committee (or even just a particularly aggressive committee member) slipped into the design specs of an existing planned upgrade.
Still insipid, stupid and, if I’m right, gutless, but not a flagrant waste of £450m.