"Can you believe this?" Andrew Pierce has asked as he held his head in his hands when he discovered the NHS will now ask men if they are pregnant before they get an x-ray.

The new guidance requires radiographers to check whether all patients aged between 12 and 55 could be expecting, regardless of gender.

Speaking about the new guidance on GB News, Pierce said: " Well it's madness. Just make it make sense."

James Essex, co-ordinator for Biological Reality, responded: "I wish I could, and if I didn't laugh, I'd cry. I mean, imagine for a moment going to the hospital and being asked if you have been neutered, or imagine being asked by your clinician if you're able to use the litter tray.

"Or even imagine being asked by your doctor when you last hibernated. This is the same as what we're seeing with men being asked if they are pregnant because these are biological impossibilities for human beings.

"It is utter madness that this question is being asked, and it's symptomatic of the woke ideologies that have infected our National Health Service."

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He added: "This is the problem with the language that has infiltrated the NHS. Terms like birthing parents, chest feeding or even things like pregnant people or menopause affect's everybody.

"No, it doesn't. I'm a man. And menopause will never affect me directly in that way. So it's also nonsense, it's got real-world ramifications here.

"We can laugh about this, but I've heard of stories of men showing up to cervical screenings because they've convinced themselves because they're transgender and that they have a cervix, wasting NHS time.

"I've equally heard of women not being notified of important cervical screening because the NHS has their sex down as male, because they have transitioned.

"So this is costing resources and it's potentially risking the health and wellbeing of patients of the NHS too."

The Telegraph reported that some radiologists had male patients leaving appointments in protests at the question.

Some women were also upset at having to explain why they could not get pregnant.

GB News host Bev Turner explained: "Trying to be compassionate here and take the other side.

"If you are a woman who's transitioned to living life as a man, and you sit there in the doctor's surgery and you've got short hair and you have a flat chest and you're wearing jeans and, I don't know, steel-toed boots. I'm stereotyping here.

"And the doctor says, has to say to that person, are you pregnant? Isn't it up to the patients to volunteer the information and say, I live as a man?

"However, I have retained my uterus and I am currently pregnant?"