Over 500 transgender women who suffered from illnesses only biological males can get were actually recorded as female in NHS official figures.
At least 549 trans patients were admitted by the NHS as women despite suffering from illnesses only associated with male health, according to The Sun.
NHS figures suggest 313 patients suffering from hyperplasia in the prostate, which refers to the enlargement of a gland that biological women do not even have, were recorded as female.
An additional 41 women were admitted for various “disorders of male genitals”.
Speaking to The Sun, one GP said: “It’s preposterous and it’s actually potentially dangerous.
“If you’re looking for trends, you won’t see them, because the numbers won’t be right. The statistics should be changed to record biological sex.
“Patients would still be treated the same, but doctors would have more accurate information to work with. Biological women needing treatment for male infertility is impossible.
“It’s an example of the indoctrination of our major institutions.”
Meanwhile, another said there will be “confusion charts” if it is supposed to be accepted that women can “have ‘disorders of male genitals’.”
Over 500 transgender women who suffered from illnesses only biological males can get were actually recorded as female in NHS official figures
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Just months ago, Conservative MP Sir John Hayes told the newspaper: “You cannot change biology. It is an immutable fact that these conditions only appear in biological men.
“The fact the NHS is pandering to this is nonsense.”
The NHS is said to allow trans patients be identified by whatever gender they prefer and even without any gender recognition certificate.
In response to the findings, the NHS said: “While many of these cases will be recording errors, and these represent 0.003 per cent of all hospital admissions, this has no bearing on how patients are treated.”
The NHS said: ‘While many of these cases will be recording errors, and these represent 0.003 per cent of all hospital admissions, this has no bearing on how patients are treated’
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PADespite this, a report published earlier this year suggested that some of these individuals could be at risk of missing vital sex-specific check-ups.
The review, which was commissioned under the Conservative government, found that there had been a “widespread loss of data on sex” across the health, policing and education sectors in particular.
The study suggests that the gradual loss of data on sex “poses risks to individuals”, particularly self-identifying trans patients who may have changed their gender on NHS records.
When an individual changes their gender, they are given a new NHS number.
The report warned that NHS failure to record biological sex, with patients able to change their gender on records, could have “potentially fatal consequences for trans people” who are not being called to screenings for conditions that could affect them because of their sex.
This means “individuals no longer receive appropriate sex-specific cancer screening referrals, and samples, e.g. blood tests are incorrectly assessed or even rejected by laboratories”.
More to follow.
