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The Free Speech Union also said the policy must be withdrawn.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Trust, Toby Young, Director of the Free Speech Union, said: “We are writing to request that this policy be immediately withdrawn and an urgent review undertaken.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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Farmers want to be ‘militant’ in response to IHT raid, NFU warns
You want more bangs for your butter? Then you gotta invade your neighbour…..in our case, that would be France, you know, the one that is sending us everyone that they don’t want. Sounds like a plan?
This is what butter activism really looks like:
‘In the 19th century, a quarter of the world’s butter was produced in Siberia, and the income from its export exceeded the income from gold mining.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Siberian butter brought Russia more income than all the gold mines combined.
The butter fever in the Russian Empire began with the commissioning of the Great Siberian Route and ended with the outbreak of World War I. Russia became the second largest butter exporter in the world (after Denmark). Vologda, Yaroslavl and Kostroma butter went to the domestic market, and Siberian butter went abroad. Moreover, half of it went through the Omsk commodity exchange.
In 1911, the Governor-General of the Steppe Region, Yevgeny Schmidt, reported to Tsar Nicholas II: “Siberian butter production produces twice as much gold as the entire gold industry.”
All this was because Siberian butter was considered to be of higher quality due to its high fat content and stable taste.
Not a trace remains of its former glory. Now in Russia, as once in the USSR, a shortage of not only Vologda butter, but any butter in principle is brewing.
Before the Russians had time to recover from the winter “egg fights,” supermarkets and retailers have prepared a new surprise for them. Butter, one of the basic products in the standard consumer basket, has disappeared from the shelves.’
‘Butter packs are being stolen. Prosperity is evident. We need to try to seize something else to spread this advanced lifestyle across the planet.’
‘Patrushev (who runs agriculture in Russia) ordered a halt to the rise in food prices within two weeks.
There are different ways to act here: you can go shopping, hug packs of butter, persuade:
“What are you doing, silly butter? Why are you getting more expensive? Don’t get more expensive.”
Or you can do the opposite – swear and stamp your feet.
Ah, under Stalin, when there was order, they would have simply shot a dozen of the most impudent cucumbers, and the rest would have understood everything themselves and become cheaper.
But now there is no political will. There is little manhood in people.’
Handy hint for our famously first female robot chancellor ever, ever:
The trouble with butter activism is that it exports butter production.
‘Russia has started importing butter from the UAE. The average Arab cow produces about 42 liters of milk per day. In Russia, depending on the region and technological equipment, such figures are almost never met, the average figure is about 20-25 liters. At the same time, farms in the UAE can keep up to 100 thousand cows at a time. Considering that there are not very many pastures in the desert, almost all farms rely on feed, and they cope.
The dairy industry was supplied to the Arabs by Icelanders, feed is purchased in Australia, the main problem for Arab farmers is the fight against heat stress in animals, therefore, high-tech climate control systems with fogging and ventilation. The only thing that is used from local resources is sand, which is used for cows instead of bedding, but it is also processed in a continuous mode, cleaning it from impurities and secretions, so that the cows always lie practically on the beach sand. In essence, it is a seaside resort, how can it not produce record milk yields?’
‘At the end of the year, Putin personally visited both Saudi Arabia and the UAE, where he declared the UAE as Russia’s main trading partner in the Arab world. Reportedly, topics of discussion during these meetings included trade in advanced technology.
Russian supplies of weaponry became constrained by sanctions, export controls, Russia’s prohibition from using the SWIFT payment system’
Guns for butter.
‘Spain removed 133 Dams last year because of the EU. Make of that what you will.’
Well, well, well.
Very quiet here today – is everybody glued to the US election instead?
Quite possibly a lack of interest in paywalled articles.