The Free Speech Union is demanding the withdrawal of a ‘woke handbook’ being used by South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Trust, prohibiting empathy for female workers worried about sharing toilets with biological males. The Mail has more.
Thousands of workers at a hospital trust in the North East have been given a woke handbook which forbids team leaders using phrases such as “I understand your concerns” to anyone who complains about the issue.
The 38-page document, which applies to more than 8,300 doctors, nurses and support staff, also says that it is discriminatory not to use a trans or non-binary person’s preferred pronoun.
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust has been accused of unlawfully discriminating against employees with gender-critical views, with critics calling it “a recipe for bullying women”.
The Free Speech Union also said the policy must be withdrawn.
Under the ‘Transitioning at Work and Gender Diversity Policy’, staff are told it is transphobic to “deliberately use the name a trans colleague had prior to transition”. They are also told it is offensive to ask a trans or non-binary person questions such as “which bathrooms do you use?”
The policy tells bosses that employees who identify as a different gender should be allowed to use alternative changing rooms and showers, even if they have no plans to medically transition.
It reads: “Managers must not make supportive comments such as ‘I understand your concerns’ to staff who, for example, complain about trans or non-binary colleagues having access to gendered spaces.
“This policy applies to everyone, including applicants applying for a job, staff including agency and volunteers, services users and carers, visitors, stakeholders and any other third party organisations who work in partnership with the Trust.”
The Equality Act orders employers not to discriminate against staff on several “protected characteristics” that include religion and belief. Now campaigners have told the trust the policy must be scrapped.
In a letter to bosses at the Trust, Toby Young, Director of the Free Speech Union, said: “We are writing to request that this policy be immediately withdrawn and an urgent review undertaken.
“We are especially concerned by its insistence that female staff cannot refuse to use the same bathroom facilities as biological males and cannot express any concerns about having to do so.
“The Trust must strike a balance between protecting trans individuals from harassment and discrimination and protecting the rights of gender-critical employees.”
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Lol #BeKind
Picky point – there’s no such thing as a biological man as distinct from a man – the two sets overlap 100%. Same goes for women. Don’t use the language or concepts of our enemy who seek to corrupt language in an attempt to normalise their evil ideas
I agree. I think using these terms like ”cis” or ”biological” before you mention the gender is just fluffing ridiculous and I will never stoop that low. I never did it before so I’m not about to start now.
https://twitter.com/LibertyCappy/status/1687372801634668545/photo/1
It has to be a red line.
Making any concession to these loonies will lead to trouble.
Agreed.
https://twitter.com/LibertyCappy/status/1686182685981421568/photo/1
Nice one——Man and Biological Man are indeed the same thing. Control the language and you control the argument.
I’ve read this twice as its content is on the cusp of my comprehension of this stuff. I mused how such posting would be interpreted (if at all) by a UK reader going back say 20 years, or better yet, to ’68 the year I went to University. As Bob Dylan presciently opined five years earlier: ‘The times they are a-changin’. (Not for the effin better either. Bob Dylan didn’t write that).
I know, right? And we wonder where all the real men have gone…
https://twitter.com/Based_Ninja_San/status/1687176508023156736
Sums it up perfectly Mogs.
Maaan. What a F*****g world we live in
At the moment…
This must be us. Always.
https://twitter.com/SpillTheMemes/status/1687317283834589184
All the “bathroom facilities” in my house are ungendered and have locks on the door to prevent these stupid issues arising.
And how I hate the American euphemism for toilet in British documents.
But memes aside, does it really take around a year to get referred to a specialist at the hospital??? And they’re still doing PCR tests??? WTAF? I was appalled reading this from a GP. Maybe you guys in the UK can confirm this, although I expect there’ll be differences amongst Trusts. I think if I was still in the UK I’d be paying out to go private. The place has gone to the dogs. 🙁
”In-patients are regularly being made to have PCR tests. I can infer that a patient has been admitted as an in-patient when I receive a PCR result. I cannot remember when there was last a positive result, and again, it is unclear why this costly and flawed procedure is still being used.
The main problem facing the NHS now is waiting times. My surgeries are filled with patients who have already been referred and are waiting for hospital appointments. The patient rings the hospital to chase their appointment and is told that the waiting list is 50/60/80 weeks long. The only way to be seen sooner is to go back to the GP and ask the GP to expedite it. Where appropriate, I then duly send another letter, but the hospital triages it back down to ‘routine’ status and we are no further on. More time wasted at both points of service. As one consultant gastroenterologist said to me recently “there is no such thing as an urgent referral any more”.
https://www.hartgroup.org/frontline-gp/
Somebody stop me! 😮
https://twitter.com/LibertyCappy/status/1685530664186363904/photo/1
Maaate…
If any women are uneasy about sharing a toilet with a ‘trans’, then they should just use the Men’s. They’d be much safer in there and no weirdos.
Won’t that start p*ssing off the men too? I have used the gents before but always made sure no one was in there beforehand, out of curtesy!
That’s the “caring” NHS for you. It doesn’t care a jot if you won’t obey.
Nurse Ratched is alive, well and cloned for the NHS.
Love the English, “applicants applying for a job”.
I was in a queue with some patients next to a door with Gender Neutral on. We were all killing ourselves, laughing at it, and summilary embarrassed a young nurse by pointing to it. We remarked it sounded like a London Underground Tube Station 😁
Ok when are we going to label the woke as crazy? That’s what it is…..
Non wokes are probably 98% in the majority. ———–All that is required is that they UNITE and refuse to be bludgeoned. They have the power to stop this total CRAP.
I wonder when they will start the self criticism sessions, I wonder when they will form groups to call out non group think and betrayal of the ideology, or perhaps they have already began, I just guess the next step will be punishment beatings for wrong think.
In all my years of work, from 1968 and counting I’ve never asked any colleague which bog they use. It’s none of my firkin business.