Evidently no one who has contributed so far has actually read the story. It has nothing to do with your physical health; the bureaucrats have decided that there are some English snowflakes out there in this brave new multi-gendered world who might want to be referred to in other than their physical gender. As for "it will never happen in Scotland" - I'd have thought it's precisely the sort of left-wing, nanny state nonsense that La Sturgeon revels in