Controversial LGBT lobby group, Stonewall, has helped to draft, or overseen, the gender policies of up to 30 NHS trusts. The Mail has more.
The LGBT charity, known for its radical stance on trans rights, suggested “improvements” to one hospital’s guidance, was listed as a “contributor” to another and “validated” a third.
It is currently providing “support” to another trust as it formulates its policy on caring for transgender patients.
Many trusts cited Stonewall, along with the scandal-hit trans youth charity Mermaids, as reputable sources of information. Last night a source close to Health Secretary Steve Barclay said he was “appalled” that some NHS managers were engaged in “woke virtue-signalling” by using outside groups to advise on equality issues despite his previous guidance against doing so.
It comes even as Stonewall has seen dozens of public sector bodies, including the Department of Health and Social Care, quit its ‘Diversity Champions’ advisory scheme in recent years.
A source close to Mr. Barclay said: “The Health Secretary has been clear that equality issues in healthcare services should be dealt with by normal management processes rather than by bringing in external providers.
“He is appalled to hear some managers are failing to respond and will be discussing with officials what further steps to take. NHS trusts and other health bodies should be relentlessly focused on caring for all patients and cutting waiting lists, not wasting time and money on woke virtue-signalling.” …
Women‘s Rights Network founder Heather Binning said: “The guidelines use the language of gender ideology repeatedly, and explicitly note that activist organisations including Stonewall helped to write them. They are representing the law as Stonewall would like it to be, not how it is.” Tory MP Nick Fletcher said: “It is unacceptable that the NHS continues to place the safety and privacy of women at risk because of ideological capture by a tiny but vocal lobbying group.”
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: For an example of how Stonewall’s guidance is applied in the NHS, see this story about how some NHS trusts are threatening employees with disciplinary action and even prosecution if they fail to use a colleague’s correct pronouns.
Stop Press 2: Lukasz Sakowski issues a warning to parents everywhere in the Mail after being manipulated into changing sex when he was just 14 by a 40 year-old transsexual.
Stop Press 3: CNN has helpfully published a guide to using neo-pronouns: “For someone who uses the nounself pronoun ‘leaf’, that may look like: ‘I hope leaf knows how proud we are that leaf is getting to know leafself better!’”
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“… [Lukasz Sakowski was]
manipulated into changing sexabused and convinced to undergo life-changing, irreversible and permanently mutilating surgery when he was just 14 by a 40 year-old transsexual.”It is not, never has been, and probably never will be possible for a person to change their sex decided at conception, at the moment the sperm fertilised the egg.
Please correct Stop Press 2.
Again, a downvote. Please pay just £5 to elaborate, or go away and leave us thinkers and debaters alone.
Two downvotes so far on this post. Some next level minds operating here.
Being able to change sex after conception would require God-like powers I think.
“next level minds”
Other-worldly , definitely. Just not sure which world! Not sure I’d want to travel there, either.
We need new countries. Since covid honestly feel I have so little in common with so many.
““He is appalled to hear some managers are failing to respond””. You have to laugh, the civil service and management of government provided services have been out of control for at least a decade.
Were Sonewall behind the adoption of the NHS rainbow symbol throughout Covid? At the time I naively thought it was a symbol of ‘hope’ and I felt it was a refreshing change to see the rainbow around and for it NOT to be the pride flag.
Cynical with hindsight, I now presume that that use was a Trojan horse for what we’re seeing now with regard to LGBTQIA+ promotion.
I wonder – Do the Hancock Whatsapp messages show up communications between him and Stonewall on this matter?
The rainbow has important Christian symbolism, so the LGBTQIA+ mob adopting it was a conscious attack on Western nations’ Judeo-Christian backgrounds.
We need to reclaim it!
Society is being shaped by a tiny minority who are mentally ill. Their psychological condition is treated with a physical remedy. Both the mental illness and treatment for the mental illness is then normalised and promoted throughout society. Time the majority started calling this out for what it is – the patients have taken over the asylum.
I’m not sure this is the case. A tiny minority who are mentally ill have been seized upon as the latest in a long line of victim groups who can be used to divide and rule, and to attack European civilisation. The puppet masters are not mentally ill, just evil. US Democrats are specialists at this.
I think it is vulnerable and confused chilfdren, often girls worried about puberty, who are being used as the battering ram, rather than the mentally-ill or sexually deviant adult males who made up the vast majority of transvestites last century.
They are being let down by their doctors and teachers but are being utterly betrayed b.y their parents
Yes, a subtle, but important, distinction. Mind you, some of the highly influential members of Stonewall are quite clearly a little deranged, and they do hold real power. Whether that’s a power that’s been strategically allowed is another question.
Yes I think you’re right
Transgenderism has its own dark history
If David’s parents hadn’t arranged to have his penis mutilated he’d have been fine.
And so, inevitably, you get this..
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/hospital-says-patient-could-not-26506744
If I was gay, I’d be livid, tbh.
it’s obvious that one cannot be gay anymore- you’re obviously in the wrong body and need life changing medical interventions.
Re Lukasz Sakowski saying that it’s normal for 7 to 8-year-olds to have an ‘innocent fascination with a person of the opposite sex or, for gays and lesbians, of the same sex’, I would point out that, at my single-sex girls’ school back in the day a long time ago (!), many somewhat older girls (12 to 13-year-olds) had ‘crushes’ on girls of about 15/16 or so, with no sexual connotations (not in my case anyway). Most of us lost interest in these crushes as we grew older – I wouid say my crush on an older girl lasted no more than 1-2 years and partly originated in the first place from everyone else having a crush!