{"id":15336,"date":"2019-01-29T01:05:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T08:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=15336"},"modified":"2019-01-29T01:05:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T08:05:58","slug":"cancer-does-not-care-about-your-gender-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2019\/01\/29\/cancer-does-not-care-about-your-gender-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer Does Not Care About Your Gender Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Many cancers and other ailments are more likely to occur in one biological sex far more often than the other, if not exclusively, due to human beings being a sexually dimorphic species with physical differences between the sexes. For example, though it is possible for a male to have breast cancer, it is very rare compared to breast cancer rates in females, while it is impossible for a male to have ovarian cancer due to not having ovaries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;However, the &#8220;quality&#8221; socialist medicine of the U.K.&#8217;s National Health Service (NHS) seem to believe that whether or not you should be invited to have a breast exam or cervical exam is dependent not on your biological sex but your gender identity, as out lined in their pamphlet &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/nhs-population-screening-information-for-transgender-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Information for trans people<\/a>&#8221; for &#8220;NHS Screening Programmes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SkullRx.gif\" alt=\"Death, Rx\" width=\"287\" height=\"269\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That&#8217;s correct: The NHS seems to think that someone without a cervix ought to be invited for a cervical exam while someone with a cervix ought not to be invited to have one, because not doing this would hurt a &#8220;trans person&#8217;s&#8221; human rights by not pretending that a female who calls herself a male is still a female or that a male who calls himself a female is still a male.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This is of particular note because the pamphlet explicitly mentions &#8220;males&#8221; and &#8220;females&#8221; rather than men and women, the former being an indicator for biological sex, while the later is used for one&#8217;s &#8220;gender identity&#8221;. We were told that <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/05\/02\/gender-lysenkoism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gender<\/a> is something <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2015\/12\/12\/gender-unicorn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">separate and distinct<\/a> from biological sex, but as has been noted before, once the words such as &#8220;man&#8221; or &#8220;her&#8221; were <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2016\/01\/20\/sex-and-gender-are-not-social-constructs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appropriated<\/a> for use as it pertains to &#8220;gender identity&#8221;, the biological reality of sex would be <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2015\/01\/16\/biology-is-just-a-social-construct\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">denied and rejected<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The problem with denying biological sex and instead relying on &#8220;gender identity&#8221; is that cancer and other diseases don&#8217;t care what &#8220;gender&#8221; you think you are, and any medical doctor who doesn&#8217;t also disregard such nonsense to instead focus in on biological reality is a quack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sadly, it seems that the quacks are running the NHS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The full pamphlet can be read below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p  style=\" margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;\">   <a title=\"View Transgender Cross Programme Screening Leaflet  on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/397924903\/Transgender-Cross-Programme-Screening-Leaflet#from_embed\"  style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" >Transgender Cross Programme Screening Leaflet<\/a> by <a title=\"View ThePoliticalHat's profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/188606198\/ThePoliticalHat#from_embed\"  style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" >ThePoliticalHat<\/a> on Scribd<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" title=\"Transgender Cross Programme Screening Leaflet \" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/397924903\/content?start_page=1&#038;view_mode=scroll&#038;access_key=key-u89LavjQ5iIrmti0v5ls&#038;show_recommendations=true\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7044566067240031\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_46824\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Hat Hit<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/5341098\/men-who-identify-as-women-are-invited-for-cervical-smear-without-a-cervix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chloe Kerr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Cancer Does Not Care About Your Gender Identity\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Many cancers and other ailments are more likely to occur in one biological sex far more often than the other, if not exclusively, due to human beings being a sexually dimorphic species with physical differences between the sexes.  For example, though it is possible for a male to have breast cancer, it is very rare compared to breast cancer rates in females, while it is impossible for a male to have ovarian cancer due to not having ovaries.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SkullRx.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Many cancers and other ailments are more likely to occur in one biological sex far more often than the other, if not exclusively, due to human beings being a sexually dimorphic species with physical differences between the sexes. 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