{"id":36647,"date":"2026-01-27T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=36647"},"modified":"2026-01-30T11:02:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T11:02:02","slug":"nhs-record-gender-identity-and-sexual-orientation-of-newborn-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/nhs-record-gender-identity-and-sexual-orientation-of-newborn-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS Midwives Record \u201cGender Identity\u201d and \u201cSexual Orientation\u201d of Newborn Babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Midwives within NHS hospitals are now being instructed to record the \u201cgender identity,\u201d \u201cpronouns,\u201d and even \u201csexual orientation\u201d of newborn babies. This is an extraordinary development that has provoked outrage and disbelief.<\/p>\n<p>According to The <a title=\"Opens in a new tab or window \" href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2026\/01\/26\/nhs-midwives-record-gender-identity-and-sexual-orientation-of-newborn-babies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>Daily Sceptic<\/b><\/a> , under a newly adopted \u00a3450 million digital patient record system called Epic, hospitals are using default registration templates that ask ideological questions wholly incompatible with infancy.<\/p>\n<p>This represents not merely administrative confusion, but the institutionalisation of gender ideology into the very first official record of human life.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #ffff00; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 9px; background-color: #800080; border-top: 9px solid #800080; border-bottom: 9px solid #800080; border-right: 18px solid #800080; border-left: 18px solid #800080; display: inline-block;\" title=\"Opens in a new tab\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stewardship.org.uk\/pages\/nccss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Join or Support Christian Voice\u2192<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Midwife raises alarm<\/h2>\n<p>One midwife at Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust was brave enough to blow the whistle, saying staff are \u201cworried\u201d by the forms, but don\u2019t want to raise the issue with NHS managers.<\/p>\n<p>She described being \u201cshocked\u201d during training to discover there was no straightforward option to record a baby\u2019s biological sex. Instead, staff were presented with fields for \u201cassigned sex at birth\u201d alongside identity-based categories.<\/p>\n<p>The midwife warned that these records form the backbone of a child\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Proverbs 12:22 Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are his delight.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #ffff00; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 5px; background-color: #1f7f4c; border-top: 9px solid #1F7F4C; border-bottom: 9px solid #1F7F4C; border-right: 18px solid #1F7F4C; border-left: 18px solid #1F7F4C; display: inline-block;\" title=\"Opens in a new tab\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/arrange-a-meeting-at-your-church\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ask us to come and speak at your church \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Foreign software, foreign values<\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"Opens in a new tab or window \" href=\"https:\/\/www.kch.nhs.uk\/about\/electronic-health-record\/#:~:text=Epic%20and%20MyChart%20are%20used,and%20Royal%20Devon%20and%20Exeter.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>The Epic system<\/b><\/a> 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\u2019s College Hospital and Guy\u2019s and St Thomas\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than customising the software for newborn clinical reality, NHS trusts appear to have imported ideological fields directly from American templates.<\/p>\n<p>Experts have condemned the decision to embed concepts such as \u201cgender identity\u201d into neonatal records as \u201cfarcical,\u201d warning that the NHS has adopted activist categories without any serious ethical or biological scrutiny.<br \/><b>Psalm 11:3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?<\/b><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36649\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36649\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/px544843-image-kwvvepks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36649\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/px544843-image-kwvvepks-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"NHS Midwives Record \u201cGender Identity\u201d and \u201cSexual Orientation\u201d of Newborn Babies\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/px544843-image-kwvvepks-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/px544843-image-kwvvepks-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/px544843-image-kwvvepks-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/px544843-image-kwvvepks-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/px544843-image-kwvvepks-537x360.jpg 537w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/px544843-image-kwvvepks-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/px544843-image-kwvvepks-681x454.jpg 681w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/px544843-image-kwvvepks-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/px544843-image-kwvvepks.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36649\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NHS Midwives Record \u201cGender Identity\u201d and \u201cSexual Orientation\u201d of Newborn Babies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Beyond identity labels, the Epic system also requires staff to complete an \u201corgan inventory,\u201d listing organs present at birth, organs currently possessed, surgically constructed organs, and hormonally altered organs.<\/p>\n<p>This mechanistic and experimental framing treats the human body as a malleable construction project rather than an integrated creation.<\/p>\n<p>The language reflects a worldview in which biology is negotiable and human design is open to endless revision\u2014directly contradicting the Christian understanding of purposeful creation.<\/p>\n<p><b>Psalm 139:14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Quiet clamp down<\/h2>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>No senior figures have accepted responsibility. Instead, Britain\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Numbers 32:23 Be sure your sin will find you out.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>A health service or gender war zone?<\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"Opens in a new tab or window \" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/nhs-staff-told-to-ask-men-if-they-are-pregnant-before-x-rays\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>In August 2024<\/b><\/a>, 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 \u2018inclusivity policy\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The guidance, which followed an incident where a \u2018transgender man\u2019 unknowingly underwent a CT scan while pregnant, required staff to ask about pregnancy status without making assumptions about a patient\u2019s gender identity.<\/p>\n<p>Some hospitals even went further, asking patients to complete forms stating their sex at birth, preferred name and pronouns.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s judgment on gender in favour of imported ideology?<\/p>\n<h2>Read and Pray<\/h2>\n<p><b>PRAY: <\/b>Pray for Truth to Prevail in Public Institutions.<br \/>Pray for the Protection of Children and the Sanctity of Creation.<br \/>Pray for Courageous Whistleblowers and God-Fearing Leaders. Pray for wisdom among authorities, that police, lawmakers and courts would act impartially, discerning between genuine harm and lawful expression, and uphold justice without prejudice or double standards.<\/p>\n<p><b>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.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Previous Articles<\/h2>\n<p><a style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 9px; background-color: #ffff00; border-top: 9px solid #FFFF00; border-bottom: 9px solid #FFFF00; border-right: 18px solid #FFFF00; border-left: 18px solid #FFFF00; display: inline-block;\" title=\"Opens in a new tab\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/croydon-street-preacher-confronted-by-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018Vaccine widower sues AstraZeneca\u2019 \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; 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