The trans trap
by Sanchez Manning and Stephen Adams, Mail on Sunday:
Women who identify as men are NOT offered routine NHS breast cancer screening… but men who identify as women WILL get smear tests.
Women who believe they are men are not being offered routine NHS screening for breast and cervical cancer amid fears that it might offend them.
But astonishingly, an official guidebook states that men living as women are being invited for cervical smear tests – even though they do not have a cervix.
The advice, spelt out in a 24-page booklet published by Public Health England, was last night described as politically correct ‘lunacy’ which was putting lives at risk.
Trans people who register with their GP as being their birth sex will automatically be invited to screening appropriate to that.
But if they register as their ‘new’ gender, they will not be.
So if a trans man – who was born female – registers as male, he ‘won’t be invited for breast screening’ at 50.
Likewise, it tells those born as girls: ‘If you are registered with a GP as male, you won’t be invited for cervical screening.’
Most trans men do not have their wombs removed – only a small number have full sex-change surgery.
However, if a trans woman – born male – ‘registers as female, you will be routinely invited for cervical screening’
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