The NHS has “desexed” its guidance on female medical conditions, by using “inclusive” gender-neutral language that excludes the words “female” and “women.”
The Times of London reported that the main NHS web pages on ovarian, womb, and cervical cancers no longer refer to women.
The National Health Service is the umbrella term for the publicly funded health care systems of the United Kingdom.
According to its inclusive content guidance, the NHS should use “sex or, better still, the body part associated with biological sex when we’re writing about things like screening that is sex-specific, for example, breast and cervical screening.”…