The NHS has been blasted as "in thrall to gender ideology" after a "nonsense" LGBTQIA network survey asking staff whether they identified with certain niche romantic orientations was leaked to the public.

The survey - which did not receive official NHS sign-off - contained questions about staff's "current sex" and asked them what "umbrella would your romantic orientation fall under".

The survey asked if workers were "greyromantic" or "greysexual", where romantic or sexual attraction is rare or only happens under certain conditions, "demi", where it only happens after "an emotional bond" is formed, and "abro", where attraction "changes over time".

While more questions asked staff to share their pronouns, giving "fae/faer/faers" and "xe/xer/xears" as options, alongside asking "are you endosex or intersex".

The NHS didn't sign off on the staff survey - but it has been slated by critics

One question asked respondents about their "current sex" was, with staff able to choose from answers including "in between male and female", "both male and female" or "leaning" towards male or female.

Kathleen Stock, co-director of the Lesbian Project and former academic, slammed the survey - which she discovered - as "batsh**t".

GB News has approached the NHS for comment.