Hospitals deal in biology – so why are they bowing to woke nonsense that men can be pregnant?
AS Stonewall’s credibility goes into freefall following multiple exposés of its “Diversity Champions” protection racket, in steps the NHS Rainbow Badge scheme.
This is the latest pro-trans ideology scam, dreamed up by the LGBT Foundation.
What started as a way for staff to show support for LGBT+ people has morphed into an assessment model to show how “inclusive” individual trusts are.
Although, in fact, it is nothing of the sort.
Firstly, in this brave new world of trans madness, the gender fairies don’t really care about the L, B or G.
These schemes are aimed at bullying workers into accepting the party line on trans rights.
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They promote the madness of using pronouns on emails and referring to “pregnant men”.
Just like the Stonewall scheme, where organisations pay to be lobbied about all things trans and subsequently tested and graded on how well they are doing according to “Stonewall Law” (rather than the law of the land), this Rainbow Badge nonsense has now inveigled its way into our hospitals, and will soon be coming to clinics and GP surgeries.
So far, 77 NHS trusts have signed up to the scheme, and the results are already filtering through.
The LGBT Foundation grades hospitals on whether they have obeyed instructions about dropping words like “mother”, “woman” (or even “cervical smear test”) and replacing them with so-called “gender neutral” words.
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They want hospitals to do away with single-sex toilets.
I’m sure this would be deeply reassuring to women in hospital suffering from gynaecological issues and desperate for privacy — as we tend to be when in such a vulnerable, partially undressed state.
Meanwhile, guidance allows that even patients who only “temporarily” identify as a woman can share female-only wards.
Single-sex wards are a hard-won right, which feminists fought for in the Eighties in response to the endemic sexual assault and harassment faced by female patients and staff.
'Identify' as women
We pay for the NHS, and the vast majority of people in the UK do not expect that men should be in female spaces — compromising the dignity, privacy and safety of female patients — simply because they “identify as” women.
As for the call for “gender neutral” language, what on earth do they think they are doing by demanding that a birthing mother should be referred to as “parent” when she is the one delivering the baby? Can men give birth? No!
The word “woman” is important because we have been penalised and discriminated against for centuries, which is why feminists demanded better maternity healthcare and maternity leave.
But recently we have heard of trans women demanding womb transplants, with one character on social media saying they wanted to be the “first trans woman to have an abortion”.
These are serious, often life-threatening issues for women and I, for one, will not capitulate to demands that we neutralise the language which feminists fought for.
While women are still in many ways defined by our biology, we are also being told we are not allowed to use our own words to describe our experiences.
“Cervix haver” is not an appropriate word to describe a woman, and neither is “non-men”, as the Green Party once called us.
Now the Royal Free Hospital in London has even gone as far as to erase given names, with staff warned that to even ask a patient this basic question could be transphobic. It’s all so dehumanising.
Hospital staff are being told that wearing a Rainbow Badge indicates they are “safe” to speak to about issues regarding LGBT. But this is just empty posturing.
Exactly like those men wearing their “This is what a feminist looks like” T-shirts while being openly sexist or even misogynistic.
Anyone can pin a badge to the white coat and still, for example, be anti-gay.
Those refusing to join will of course face the same fate as organisations that resisted Stonewall’s Diversity Programme — they will be presumed LGBT+ unfriendly.
Made-up gender identities
Hospitals deal with biology, not ideology and made-up gender identities.
Doctors and other medical staff have to know who they are treating and what the condition may be.
Men are not going to have pregnancy complications, because they cannot get pregnant, and women aren’t going to suffer from prostate cancer because they do not possess one.
Material reality is extremely important when we are speaking about health.
Of course it matters that doctors do not adversely judge a person for being lesbian or gay, for example.
But that issue can be dealt with by the human resources department, like any other issue regarding discrimination relating to race, religion, sexuality, etc.
This Rainbow Badge scheme involves medical staff asking patients how they would like to be referred to. In other words, which pronouns to use.
For non-trans patients, finding themselves in hospital and facing an already frightening and disorientating experience, this is baffling or downright insulting.
Other questions are also asked of patients, such as, “Do you have a trans history?” and, “Is your gender the same as the gender you were given at birth?”
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Those fortunate enough not to be ensconced in such madness will have no idea what this is all about.
End it now. Our health, both mental and physical, depends on it.
