As if wearing a great name for the baby was not that difficult.
Newborns cannot even control their movements, but this is not stopping New Jersey hospitals from seeking parents for their baby’s favorite pronouns and sexual orientation.
Inspector of Insira Health “Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity” requires new parents to “identify” their babies as “male, female, transgender, gender” or “additional gender category”.
Further asking parents to choose the word that best describes their baby: “Lezbian or homosexual, straight or heterosexual, self-described, in question/uncertain.”
The health care system operates four hospitals, two cancer centers and eight health centers throughout South Jersey-Created the form last year to meet a newly-acclaimed garden law that required health care providers “collect race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender identity in a cultural identity.”
But many, from parents to politicians, think that the newborn survey is absurd.
“This form is completely crazy, and anyone who will dictate the sexual orientation of a child is likely to have an agenda,” said Sandy Anello, 34, a mother and two living in Bridgewater, Nj. “If he were to tell me to complete this, I would rip it in front of them. It feels like we have entered the ‘twilight area’.”
“Identify my child as gay on day 1 is crazy,” offered Jersey City Mom-To be Carsen Rodgers, who is due to April. “I had no idea about this form and I’m shocked.”
New Jersey State Senate, Holly Schepisi (R-Bergen) told The Post, “the whole thing lacks such a common sense and does not serve any purpose.
“As a mother, I know you are exhausted after you are born, you have a newborn crying and trying to understand how to feed it. To give you that form in the middle of everything that has no medical value, it makes no sense.”
Schepis shared a photo of the Facebook form, causing disbelief, with many commentators who questioned the authenticity of the picture.
The legislator said she would present a draft law next week to review the language of New Jersey’s mandate, limiting such data collection to patients 16 and older.
Schepisi said the state mass was a last -minute addition to a package of bills approved by Trenton on June 30, 2022.
“What was the genesis of this bill?” Schepisi asked aloud. “How did you barely move any committee session on it so quickly?”
Schepisi suspects that someone is buying demographic data from the state and “using them for some kind of purpose.”
Democrat of New Jersey State Sens. Joseph Cryan and Angela McKnight presented the bill on June 23, 2022. They refused to comment.
Democrat Herbert Conaway, a former Assembly who was elected to the House of Representatives last year, also worked on the -law.
“The draft law was modeled after Indiana Statute and was created to provide public health officials the data needed to develop public health measures that effectively serve all New Jerseyans,” Conaway said in a statement to The Post.
“Good policy depends on the availability of complete and accurate data. By law, hospitals are required to collect and report demographic data on the patients they serve; However, no patient or parent is obliged to answer any questions that makes them uncomfortable.
“The newborns do not undergo this data collection because parents are not required to complete the form. Many health decisions for newborns are left to parents’ discretion. “
Representatives for NYC hospitals said they did not collect such data.
One representative of Health Insara said the questionnaire “is required by New Jersey Law” and emphasized parents “are allowed to refuse to provide this information.”
Insport had requested a renunciation of the state, but this has not yet been given.
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