Male cancer patients and those having X-rays and MRI scans are being asked if they could be expecting after the government removed the word “female” from the law governing the medical procedures and replaced it with “individuals.”
The Walton Centre National Health Service Foundation Trust, in Liverpool, now asks “ALL patients under the age of 60, regardless of how you may identify your gender.”
The Daily Telegraph understands that it is among a handful of trusts to have implemented the policy for men and women undergoing procedures that involve radiotherapy and could harm an unborn baby.
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