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unified-multiversal-theory:unified-multiversal-theory:unified-multiversal-theory:the-softest-gaze:sighing-is-a-song: chronic-yonic: HAH! Holy shit for real??? Sources? I will happily read a source if one is found. The author of this tweet was responding to this tweet:https://twitter.com/Baroness_Nichol/status/1400802099479433216?s=20It’s one image of four in a set of minutes from a public meeting (over Zoom): NHS Medical Data Definition and its Impact on Single Sex Wards, Medical Procedures, and Patient OutcomesI have saved the rest of the minutes (four images in all), but they can be found on Baronness_Nichol’s Twitter under Media, June 4 2021 The image:The relevant text: (bottom of page 3 to mid page 4):The Chair introduces the second speaker, senior physiotherapist Elaine Miller. Elaine, could you please inform us on the big questions you have facing with the elderly, so the other end of the scale?Ms Elaine Miller speaks:Age UK states that older transgender people with cognitive decline may forget that they transitioned.This relates to a study (Forgotten Lives) which examined transgender individuals who had dementia. The paper states that transgender people who have dementia may forget that they transitioned and may re-identify with the previous sex and gender, or they may experience gender confusion. This raises significant ethical issues about continuing hormone treatment for this population and for managing their social interactions.Sexual orientation is unaffected by memory loss, people with dementia do not forget that they are homosexual, heterosexual or bisexual. So my concern is, these cases raise a challenge to the assertion, by some people, that gender differences are innate.There is no system for a reversing certificate.I live in Scotland and the new Hate Crime Bill would make it a crime to misgender somebody or to use their original name in order to do harm to them. My question is, given that it has been found the older transgender people with cognitive decline may forget that they have transitioned, has it been considered how we can give person centred care to individuals whose preference is to be addressed by their “dead name”? Would that change if the person has a GRC and was legally of the opposite sex? Our health care professionals and caterers are at risk of being accused of a hate crime if they fulfil the patient’s wishes to be treated as per their sex.How do we ensure that a transgender person with a GRC is not harmed by the alteration of their sex on their NHS records?Can we be confident that ‘First Do No Harm’ is applied, if clinicians do not know a patient’s biological sex?Personally, I was accused of being transphobic on a professional forum for raising these issues. My role requires critical thinking and I do not think it is bigoted to expect that our trans community has the has the [sic] same level of evidence supporting their case as anybody else. I believe this may be the Forgotten Lives study to which she refers: Forgotten Lives: Trans older adults living with dementia at the intersection of cisgenderism, ableism/cogniticism and ageism (Journal Sexualities, 2019) -- source link