The Age has reported that a group of 120 medical professionals have sent a letter to the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), on the gender agenda issue. They warned that “blurring the lines between biological sex and gender identity on medical forms and in research threatens” their ability to collect accurate data and “can lead to serious medical errors.”’ Cases from the US are cited where medical care has had disastrous results because people presented as being of a sex which they were not. One such case is a person who self-presented as male to emergency, and who was treated for various causes related to male issues of abdominal pain and high blood pressure, but who was pregnant, and ultimately had to have the foetus removed as it had died during the mistaken procedures.
Now, while it seems like a good idea to inform the NHMRC of these problems, that government organisation is concerned with medical research and grants: