I'm not the previous anon but I've been wondering the same thing. I want to be referred to as 'Mr' (and then my chosen name when I legally change it) because being called 'Miss' makes me feel very dysphoric. But I'm concerned that changing my gender to male on the paperwork will mean I won't be offered (or might be refused) healthcare checks I might need in the future? (Like cervical smears and such).
Hi Anon,
When you update your name/gender with your GP this does not automatically remove you from the ‘female’ healthcare lists. So you will still be contacted about smears etc. You will continue to be on these lists until you contact the correct NHS departments individually and ask to be removed from their lists. So for example, once someone has had a vaginectomy and would no longer require a smear, they would need to contact the correct NHS departments to be removed from their lists.
However, when your name/gender marker are updated with your GP, you will have to be prepared for NHS staff that contact you about smears etc potentially being confused as to why a male is on ‘female’ healthcare lists. But a short explanation should help them understand your situation and the sensitive nature of this.
This is contrary to information provided by the "NHS population screening: information for trans and non-binary people":
Trans men and non-binary people assigned female at birth who are registered with a GP as female:
are invited for breast screening
are invited for bowel cancer screening
are invited for cervical screening
are not invited for AAA screening
Trans men and non-binary people assigned female at birth who are registered with a GP as male: [this is what anon would be]
are not routinely invited for breast screening but can request screening
are invited for bowel cancer screening
are not routinely invited for cervical screening but can request screening
are invited for AAA screening but do not have a high risk of AAA
This clearly states that your registered gender at the GP is what makes the difference.
That said, anon may very well find that GPs will allow you to change your title to "Mr" without changing your gender marker, if that's a route you want to pursue (they should allow this as you can change your title by deed poll, for example, without any legal gender change and titles have no legal binding).
UKFTM have literally just had to make a post about the way people like this comment on their posts. It’s comments like this that clearly want to discredit UKFTM and make themselves sound like they know better. Maybe it would have been nicer to just say something like “Thanks for your information….my experience has been this….or I found this for my local NHS board.” Instead of “This is contrary to information provided by NHS”. The information you find might be different, but that doesn’t make UKFTM wrong.
