One might reasonably assume that NHS employees would consider biological sex to be extremely important. After all, there are huge differences in male and female bodies and their functions. The type of illnesses we are prone to can be affected by whether a patient is male or female. Women and men also have different reproductive organs and, as a result, fertility issues may vary depending on a patient’s sex. But this knowledge of male and female physiology can sometimes appear to matter less than being patted on the head by Stonewall, the gay rights charity turned transactivist cult.
How much more harm can Stonewall do before it finally gets the comeuppance it deserves?
So desperate were the big guns at NHS England to be included in Stonewall’s Top 100 Employers that, in its recent application, it stated its menopause policy is ‘LGBT inclusive’ and had been improved to support ‘trans and non-binary employees’. ‘It is important to acknowledge that transgender, non-binary and intersex workers may also experience the menopause,’ according to the NHS England. Really?
Only women experience menopause. Only females get pregnant. As ever, the feelings of men that claim to be women have been placed high above actual women, even when it comes to our healthcare.
How exactly did the NHS, at a time when it is literally on its knees, end up being concerned about what Stonewall thinks of them? Surely the priority for the NHS should be treating patients – not worrying about making the cut in Stonewall’s ludicrous league table?
The NHS’s boasting about its menopause police isn’t the only worrying indication that our health service has got its priorities all wrong. It was revealed this week that its domestic abuse policy for staff used ‘gender-neutral language’ and did not include the words ‘woman’ or ‘women’.
This policy is about employees and not patients per se. But gender ideology adopted by bosses is not only a matter for staff. In August last year, it was revealed that over 70 NHS trusts had signed up to something called the ‘Rainbow Badge Scheme’, where employees were being encouraged to wear a badge that declared their pronouns, and to ask patients which pronouns they use. They were also asked to question patients about whether they have a trans history, and if their gender was the gender they were ‘assigned at birth’.
Trans ideology has filtered down into healthcare settings to the point where single sex toilets and wards are under threat. I campaigned for women’s-only facilities and wards in hospitals back in the 1980s, when there were no such things and sexual assaults and harassment in mixed wards were a regular occurrence.
In its kowtowing to organisations like Stonewall, the NHS risks a return to these dark days.
So, how much more harm can Stonewall do before it finally gets the comeuppance it deserves? Quite a bit it would appear. Stonewall has at one stage or another had its foot in the door of so many major institutions including schools, the Crown Prosecution Service and even the Armed Forces.
Stonewall has also advised over 300 schools to stop using the terms ‘boys and girls’. It has also given the same advice about ‘gender neutral’ language to the Royal Navy and various government departments such as the Cabinet Office and Department for Work and Pensions. Both departments withdrew from the Diversity Champions Programme after it was pointed out what a disgraceful waste of public money it was to pay Stonewall to be told what to do and what to say when it came to issues such as transgender ideology.
‘Inclusive language’ promoted by Stonewall and adopted by a growing number of NHS chiefs excludes women. Rather than it leading to LGBTQ employees being treated with dignity and respect, as Stonewall claims, it is about imposing a type of cultist behaviour on people to adopt or accept gender identity, when in fact, most of us do nothing of the sort.
It would help to remind ourselves every now and again that the majority of UK citizens do not sign up to the erosion of sex based rights and language. The NHS is in the worst shape it has ever been – and Stonewall is driving it even further into the ground.
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