We need to find the person who put this questionnaire together and make sure they are never again involved in public policy.
On Monday, Yahoo News reported that parents of newborn babies born in New Jersey are legally required to fill out a form that has an option of listing the child as transgender.
Here is a screenshot of the form:
What manner of insanity is this?
The article reports:
Inspira claims that it created the questionnaire to comply with a New Jersey law requiring healthcare providers to “collect race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity in a culturally competent and sensitive manner”.
The questions are intended to “provide a safe and compassionate experience” and “comply with recently-enacted state legislation”, the form states.
Republican State Senator Holly Schepisi told the Post: “The entire thing lacks such common sense, and serves no purpose whatsoever.
“As a mom myself, I know you’re exhausted after giving birth, you’ve got a crying newborn and you’re trying to figure out how to feed it. To be handed that sort of form in the midst of all that has no medical value, it makes no sense.”
She added that she would introduce a bill next week to revise New Jersey law to limit the data collection to patients aged over 16 years.
The article concludes:
Inspira Health told The Telegraph that it was “required by New Jersey law” to “request their patients provide their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender identity”.
It continued: “Patients are permitted to decline to provide this information.
“Per recent guidance from the New Jersey Department of Health stating that health systems can collect that data in a clinically appropriate and culturally competent manner, Inspira Health will request this information from adults.
“This update in protocol remains compliant with the law, and we respect patients’ right to decline to respond.”
He added that the company had sought a waiver from the state but that it had not been granted.
I don’t have a problem with the government collecting basic birth statistics. However, this is ridiculous. Babies know how to eat, cry, smile, and make messes. Their intellectual capacity in other areas is very limited.