“Dr David Mackereth has worked for 26 years as an NHS doctor but was told he could not be employed as a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) disability assessor if he refused to identify patients as being of a sex that they did not see themselves as.”
This looks like an example of the all too common phenomenon of saying or writing the exact opposite of what is meant. I think DID NOT should be left out. Apparently he was refusing to identify patients as being of a sex they DID see themselves as. At least in that sentence the correct term of sex was used rather than the incorrect term of gender. A lot of what I see written now cannot be simply read, it must be INTERPRETED to figure out what the writer was trying to write but in some cases I cannot even be sure the writer knew what he or she was attempting to convey.
Patient with a pee-pee: I’m a lady!
Principled physician: No yer not, mate
NHS: On yer bike doc We need a 2nd opinion
Thank you. I read that sentence many times over trying to figure out what was wrong with him doing that. lol
Yes, if the words “did not” were not placed in the sentence, it shows what they are doing.