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New Jersey parents blast 'woke' hospital form asking new moms the sexual identity of their..

• https://www.dailymail.co.uk, By DONNA ANDERSEN

Any day now, New Jersey mom Lillie Mingle is set to give birth to her fourth child, planning to deliver at an Inspira Health Network hospital, as she did for her first three kids.

During a recent routine hospital visit, she received her third trimester folder, expecting the usual documents and information given to expectant mothers in preparations for labor.

But when she reviewed the forms Mingle said she was stunned - and 'disgusted' - to find a 'sexual orientation and gender identity' questionnaire intended for her newborn baby - mandated by a state law passed by the democratically-controlled legislature in 2022.

The bizarre form, obtained by DailyMail.com, asks new moms to disclose which gender their child was 'assigned at birth' and to check off whether they identify their baby as female, male, transgender female, transgender male, genderqueer, or an additional gender category that's not listed. 

It also asked moms to choose whether their child is 'lesbian or gay, straight or heterosexual, bisexual, self-described, or questioning/unsure,' straight out of the womb. 

'It's deeply twisted and evil,' Mingle told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview. 

'Who is even sitting around wondering such a thing, why did my tax dollars pay them to write this up, and why is it now 'state law' that I give an answer? 

'Why are freshly postpartum moms being pushed to comply?'

Mingle, who is based in south Jersey, works as a photographer and birth doula, supporting expectant mothers through the pregnancy, labor, and birth process. 

Having worked with numerous moms through her line of work over the years, she took to her doula business's Instagram to ask whether any of her clients, or New Jersey mothers in general, had been asked to complete the form. 

Of the moms who gave birth at Inspira hospitals in the past year, 68 percent received the questionnaire and 32 percent did not, according to her survey results. 

Moms who delivered at other hospitals in the south Jersey area, were less familiar with the form, with only 20 percent being asked to fill the questionnaire. 

Mingle later surveyed women on Facebook where she discovered  additional moms who were asked to specify the sexual orientation and gender identity of their newborns — as well as their young children.

She found parents were universally shocked by the request, with some of them pushing back. 


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