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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Holly Bancroft

Transgender patients not called to NHS screenings due to failure to record sex, review finds

Transgender patients have not been called for vital screenings because the NHS is failing to record people’s biological sex, a review has found.

The review, commissioned under the Conservative government and published on Wednesday, found that there had been a “widespread loss of data on sex” across the health, policing and education sectors, with many public bodies replacing sex data for gender identity statistics.

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