Midwives within NHS hospitals are now being instructed to record the “gender identity,” “pronouns,” and even “sexual orientation” of newborn babies. This is an extraordinary development that has provoked outrage and disbelief.
According to The Daily Sceptic , under a newly adopted £450 million digital patient record system called Epic, hospitals are using default registration templates that ask ideological questions wholly incompatible with infancy.
This represents not merely administrative confusion, but the institutionalisation of gender ideology into the very first official record of human life.
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Midwife raises alarm
One midwife at Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust was brave enough to blow the whistle, saying staff are “worried” by the forms, but don’t want to raise the issue with NHS managers.
She described being “shocked” during training to discover there was no straightforward option to record a baby’s biological sex. Instead, staff were presented with fields for “assigned sex at birth” alongside identity-based categories.
The midwife warned that these records form the backbone of a child’s legal and medical existence, following them for life and underpinning birth certification. That such foundational documentation now prioritises ideology over observable biological reality has been described as deeply troubling.
Proverbs 12:22 Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are his delight.
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Foreign software, foreign values
The Epic system is produced by US technology giant Epic Systems and has been rolled out across at least ten NHS trusts, including major London hospitals such as King’s College Hospital and Guy’s and St Thomas’.
Rather than customising the software for newborn clinical reality, NHS trusts appear to have imported ideological fields directly from American templates.
Experts have condemned the decision to embed concepts such as “gender identity” into neonatal records as “farcical,” warning that the NHS has adopted activist categories without any serious ethical or biological scrutiny.
Psalm 11:3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
Beyond identity labels, the Epic system also requires staff to complete an “organ inventory,” listing organs present at birth, organs currently possessed, surgically constructed organs, and hormonally altered organs.
This mechanistic and experimental framing treats the human body as a malleable construction project rather than an integrated creation.
The language reflects a worldview in which biology is negotiable and human design is open to endless revision—directly contradicting the Christian understanding of purposeful creation.
Psalm 139:14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Quiet clamp down
In 2023, NHS officials claimed the system would be updated to record biological sex only after complaints from frontline staff. Yet the underlying problem remains: NHS leadership approved the purchase and deployment of a system containing these ideological assumptions in the first place.
No senior figures have accepted responsibility. Instead, Britain’s national health service appears to be drifting further into cultural experimentation while parents, clinicians, and children bear the consequences. What should be a moment of joy, the recording of new life, has become yet another battlefield in an ideological war against created truth.
Numbers 32:23 Be sure your sin will find you out.
A health service or gender war zone?
In August 2024, NHS staff at multiple hospitals in England were told they must check whether all patients aged 12 to 55 are pregnant, regardless of their sex. But the NHS claimed it was part of its ‘inclusivity policy’.
The guidance, which followed an incident where a ‘transgender man’ unknowingly underwent a CT scan while pregnant, required staff to ask about pregnancy status without making assumptions about a patient’s gender identity.
Some hospitals even went further, asking patients to complete forms stating their sex at birth, preferred name and pronouns.
With the chaos and ideological confusion engulfing the NHS in recent years, many Britons are now asking unavoidable questions: Who is really directing policy inside the health service? And why does the NHS appear willing to sidestep the Supreme Court’s judgment on gender in favour of imported ideology?
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READ: Psalm 127:3; 139:13 Joshua 1:9; Prov 14:34; Isa 28:9; Matt 10:7; Luke 9:2, 10:1; John 8:32.
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I suppose the best thing to determine a newborn’s sexual orientation is to ask it. Having lived in as a hospital doctor I can imagine the conversation this might have caused, but it would be unrepeatable.