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Scouts to Employ Diversity Chief on £75,000-a-Year

by Richard Eldred
18 February 2024 5:00 PM

The Scouts are set to allocate £75,000 a year towards employing an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion officer, amid concerns of wokery and transgender activism. The Mail has the story.

The hefty salary was disclosed in an advert posted on the Scouts website which says they are looking for their next “Head of EDI” to manage a team of nine and work a 35-hour week, potentially from home, “with regular travel”.

But critics have questioned whether the Scouts should spend such a large amount of resources on the role following concerns that EDI is being used to spread trans activist ideas within the organisation.

Maya Forstater, Chief Executive of feminist campaign group Sex Matters, who was previously an assistant Cub Scout leader, said: “…they have gone wild on the issue of gender identity. They are doing what everyone else is doing and as soon as you wave a rainbow flag they forget about safeguarding issues and their policies on trans kids are all ‘affirm, affirm, affirm’.

“All of that is driven by a combination of EDI, people at headquarters and the gay, lesbian and trans Scouts group.”

This latest EDI vacancy follows the Scouts announcing on networking website LinkedIn last August that they were recruiting eight new EDI staff.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: EDIGender IdeologyLGBTQ+The ScoutsTrans ActivismWoke Gobbledegook

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

Just a quick shout out to the NHS to say how you never cease to reaffirm to me why I think you’re an absolutely disgusting, unethical organization, a national embarrassment and an international laughing stock. You are the place where common sense, evidence-based medicine and medical ethics go to die. ( paywalled );

”An NHS trust has said that breast milk produced by trans women who were assigned male at birth is as good for babies as that produced by a mother who has given birth.
In a letter to campaigners, the University of Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust (USHT), said that the milk produced by trans women after taking a combination of drugs is “comparable to that produced following the birth of a baby”.

The trust created what it called Britain’s “first clinical and language guidelines supporting trans and non-binary birthing people” in 2021.
Within its guidance were assertions about the ability of trans women to produce milk for a baby.
For a person born male to breastfeed, they must develop milk-producing glands by taking the hormone progestin.
A drug is required to lactate, such as domperidone, which is often prescribed to women struggling to breastfeed, and helps to stimulate the production of prolactin – a separate hormone that tells the body to produce milk.

Domperidone, also known by the brand name Motilum, was not intended for this, but is prescribed off-label by doctors, despite the manufacturer, Janssen, itself recommending against it because of possible side effects to a baby’s heart.
The patient leaflet for Motilium says: “Small amounts have been detected in breastmilk. Motilium may cause unwanted side effects affecting the heart in a breastfed baby. [It] should be used during breastfeeding only if your physician considers this clearly necessary.”

USHT believes the practice is safe, adding that hospital staff “advise any parent who is taking medication (for whatever reason) to seek advice on the possibility of that medication being transferred to the baby through breastfeeding and also the health implications for the baby”.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/18/trans-womens-milk-as-good-as-breast-milk-says-nhs-trust/

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

FFS!

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

What is the difference between an EDI Official and a plank of wood? ——–The Grain

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Heretic
Heretic
1 year ago

How horrible to endanger the children in this way! All the “safeguarding” courses are tossed out the window. It’s complete satanic madness.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago

If I had children in this organisation I would take them out immediately. So this outfit is going to indoctrinate children in subjects that are no business of the Scouts which was founded on traditional English and Christian principles.

Somebody deserves jail time for this.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Scouts have lost their honour.😲🕵‍♂️

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Damned right Mogs.👍

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Arborvitae23
Arborvitae23
1 year ago

Never mind the salary advertised.
“Manage a team of nine!”
How much is that lot costing?

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GroundhogDayAgain
GroundhogDayAgain
1 year ago
Reply to  Arborvitae23

It is a pretty obscene salary for what is in effect a ‘political commissar’ non-job for a self-important busybody.

I forget whose quote it is, something like: first it starts out a cause, then it becomes a movement, finally it becomes a racket. Well, they’ve skipped the first two.

Not a thought at all about the people who actually slog their guts out week in, week out for next to nothing. The left have forgotten their roots. Labour is insultingly misnamed.

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RTSC
RTSC
1 year ago

No child of mine would now be joining the Scouts.

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Gefion
Gefion
1 year ago
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It’s terrible that this is happening.

Mine were all Queen’s Scouts and got their DofE Gold Award though the Scouts. They thoroughly enjoyed Scouts – but I’m not sure I’d be sending them now. I guess it will depend on the individual leaders how ‘woke’ the units are – for now anyway.

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Gefion
Gefion
1 year ago

£75,000 for 35 hours each week and working from home… Wonder how many applicants they’ll get for this ridiculous job?

I was a Beaver leader and a Cub leader and everything was done on a shoe string – the weekly subs were used to finance parties and equipment; the leaders were all volunteers.

The ethos of the Scout movement is now questionable to say the least.

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
1 year ago

Scouts for Boys & Guides for Girls ! At least the P do,s know where to start !!

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