NHS staff have been ordered to treat trans colleagues with beards as women and use female pronouns in training materials that also claim gender-neutral toilets promote “equality”. The Telegraph has more.
Training materials for NHS Scotland workers ask them to consider the fictional case of “Lucy”, a 29 year-old trans nurse who had yet to formally change his name from Lee.
The cultural humility training module states that Lucy “is still producing facial hair which is exposed” and that some other staff are unhappy correcting patients when they use male terms to describe the nurse.
The module stated that “discrimination against Lucy will not be tolerated” and the staff “have a duty (under equality law) to use the correct name and pronouns for Lucy”.
In addition, the training endorses the rollout of gender-neutral lavatories, claiming they “promote equality by eliminating the need for people to conform to traditional gender norms”.
The training scenarios, prepared by the NHS Education for Scotland (NES) agency, also said that people can decide for themselves “whether they identify as disabled”.
The content of the materials was disclosed by the Times as John Swinney was forced to deny that Scotland’s gender self-ID policies are “state sponsored abuse of human rights”.
Ash Regan, a former SNP minister who quit Nicola Sturgeon’s Government in protest at self-ID legislation, told the First Minister to apologise to women for the “attack” on women’s rights.
Mr Swinney told First Minister’s Questions at Holyrood that he had shown “leadership” on the protection of women and girls.
However, he recently backed the right of trans Scottish government staff who self-identify as women to use female lavatories and changing rooms.
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