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Great Britain's National Health Service is offering breast exams and cervical smear tests for men who identify as women despite not having a cervix, according to a new public health guidebook on transgender and nonbinary persons.

Also, amid fears that offering women who identify as men to have breast and cervical cancer screenings would offend them, the country's national medical system would not be inviting such individuals for those kinds of tests, the Telegraph (UK) reported Sunday.

A 24-page Public Health England booklet provides information on NHS screening programs for transgender persons and explains who is invited for tests. Those who designate their gender as the same as their biological sex will be invited for medical screenings appropriate to that, the booklet says; yet they will not be invited for those medical tests if they register their new gender with their doctor.

Under these guidelines, a biologically female transgender man who registers as a male will not be sent invites for breast or cervical screenings. Most transgender men have not had their uteruses surgically removed.

Under these guidelines, a biologically female transgender man who registers as a male will not be sent invites for breast or cervical screenings. Most transgender men have not had their uteruses surgically removed.