Why is the NHS registering babies as ‘theybies’?

‘Congratulations, it’s a theyby!’, says the birthing assistant, as the mewling, mucus-covered newborn is placed in the arms of the organic incubator.

This is the brave new world that trans activists within the NHS are imposing on maternity care. With the rollout of a £450million patient-record system, developed by the US company Epic, the vision has moved from theory to practice: midwives can now record the ‘gender identity’ and ‘sexual orientation’ of babies when they’re born.

Under Epic’s default settings, even a minutes-old child is registered via a form prompting clinicians to enter a gender identity, pronouns and sexual orientation, alongside a sex ‘assigned at birth’. This was brought to light after a whistleblower from Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust told the Mail on Sunday that staff were left ‘shocked’ by the system following a training session. The software is thought to be in use across at least 10 NHS trusts.

The same registration process requires completion of an ‘organ inventory’, prompting staff to log which organs a patient currently has, which were present at birth, and whether any have been surgically or hormonally ‘enhanced’ or ‘constructed’. This mutilation of official health records happened despite assurances given in 2023, when NHS leaders said the software would be altered to record biological sex only, after midwives reported that newborns could not be registered without selecting a gender identity.

This is only the latest farce to afflict healthcare thanks to trans ideology. There has also been a purge of insufficiently ‘inclusive’ language, particularly in relation to services that women rely on. The National Childbirth Trust recently published a report on the ‘experiences of pregnancy, birth and life with a newborn’, which used the word ‘mother’ only once in the text of the 34-page report. This was replaced with phrases such as ‘birthing person’ and ‘woman parent’.

Meanwhile, whistleblowers revealed in 2025 that NHS midwives have received training from trans-activist organisations that promote the idea of ‘male breastfeeding’. One such group, the Queer Birth Club, runs ‘LGBTQ+ competency’ and lactation classes advising its students that ‘birthing people ain’t all women’ and educating them on the ‘history and legacy of fatphobia in maternity and perinatal services’.

Even as the quality of maternity care plummets, the focus of NHS leaders remains squarely on promoting gender ideology. Ahead of her review into maternity services, which is due to be published in June, Baroness Amos has reported that expectant and new mothers are being left hungry, being blamed for their own babies’ deaths and, in some cases, ‘bleeding out in bathrooms’. Meanwhile, public money is still being wasted appeasing trans activists’ demands and embedding their lies into clinical practice.

The responsibility for changing this ought not to rest on the shoulders of whistleblowers. Not least because recent cases have made it clear that staff who refuse to play along with the activist agenda are all too often disciplined, victimised and presented as a problem. And while certain brave women – like Sandie Peggie, the Darlington nurses and Jennifer Melle – have taken on their managers in the courts, winning individual victories, the ideological machinery still rolls on untouched, free from accountability.

The real question, then, is not why individual clinicians stay silent, but who is authorising these things in the first place? Which members of which NHS boards have decided that scarce public money is better spent on software that’s warped by ideology, consultancy fees for DEI experts, and ‘inclusivity’ training, rather than on hospital beds, clinical staff or safe maternity care? Who signed it off, who nodded it through, and on whose authority? And when will the UK health secretary grab the problem by its nonbinary balls?

Until someone does, decision-makers in the NHS will continue to spaff out nonsense, locked into their #BeKind circle-jerk. The cost will be borne by patients whose medical care depends on accurate records, and by children inducted into an ideology before they can lift their own heads.

The NHS may now record the identity of ‘theybies’ before the afterbirth has cooled. Nurses may congratulate the sperm donors and gestational carriers. But in the real world, women still give birth, babies still have sexes, and a health service that forgets all this is not being ‘kind’ – it is being negligent.

Jo Bartosch is co-author of Pornocracy. Order it here.