Given that ‘our’ NHS seems to be in a state of permanent financial crisis and always seems to need ever more of our money, I like to look out for the many new and ingenious ways ‘our’ NHS finds to spaff our money on politically-correct nonsense. One of the clearest indications of ‘our’ NHS’s financial incontinence is the constant stream of job vacancies for DIE (Diversity, Inclusion and Equality) managers being paid up to £80,000 a year. I have written about this previously on the Daily Sceptic. Using what the Germans so elegantly call fingerspitzgefühl I estimate that ‘our’ NHS currently squanders around £100 million a year on the cost of these people including their salaries, office costs and amount of frontline staff’s time they waste on pointless DIE courses.
I noticed that in the six weeks of the election campaign there weren’t any DIE vacancies advertised – though I expected lots of them once Labour was in power as ‘our’ NHS knows the new Government will hose billions more of our money into the seemingly insatiable gaping maws of our envy-of-the-world health service. So far there have just been three new NHS DIE vacancies advertised since the election. But I suspect this is just the beginning of a flood. So, as Mr. Streeting promises to reform ‘our’ NHS to ensure our money is spent well on things like cutting waiting lists and improving patient care, NHS bosses are off again squandering huge sums of our money on building totally pointless DIE empires in all our hospitals and healthcare organisations. Moreover, a couple of days ago I found what seems to me to be a new and exciting way for ‘our’ NHS to excrete our money down the drainpipe of history. There is a new job ad for a “Senior Fellow in Masculinising Genital Gender Affirmation Surgery” at Barnet and Chase Farm hospitals. I was married to a surgeon for over 20 years. But when I saw the job ad, I didn’t have a clue what “Masculinising Genital Gender Affirmation Surgery” was.
Fortunately, Dr. Google helpfully explained: “Masculinising genital gender affirming surgery is surgery to remove all or part of the vagina, called a vaginectomy, create a scrotum, called scrotoplasty, place testicular prostheses, increase the length of the clitoris, called metoidioplasty, or create a penis, called phalloplasty.”
So, there you have it folks. Rather than using our money on old-fashioned things like treating cancer patients or accident victims, ‘our’ NHS is splashing our cash on sticking dicks on chicks. (At this point, for educational purposes only, I was going to show you a few pictures of Masculinising Genital Gender Affirmation Surgery. But decided to refrain as, unless you like your steaks bien saignant, these might put you off your dinner for quite some time. However, if you Google images of Masculinising Genital Gender Affirmation Surgery you’ll see what I mean. It looks rather unpleasant and exceedingly painful.)
There were some other aspects of this wonderful job opportunity I found mildly interesting/depressing:
- the successful applicant is encouraged to have both a ‘safe and effective’ vaccine and a ‘safe and effective’ vaccine booster against COVID-19, even though we know that there is no evidence that the ‘safe and effective’ vaccines were ever tested to establish whether they gave any protection against a person infecting others. The job ad explained: “Getting vaccinated, and getting a booster, remains the best defence against COVID-19. We encourage and support staff to get COVID-19 vaccine and a booster dose as and when they are eligible.”
- the successful applicant must show “Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values”. One of the trust’s key values is, of course, diversity: “We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.”
Although this is just one of many jobs being advertised by ‘our’ NHS, it seems to me to be yet another indication of how far ‘our’ NHS has strayed from its founding principles of provided free medical care for those in most need. Sticking dicks on chicks hardly seems to me to be a medical necessity.
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—‘people with lived experiences.’ What other sort are there?
There are unlived experiences, known as fantasies. These are “experienced” or “believed” by delusional fantasists, sometimes so far fanciful that they, correctly, are considered fantasies, euphoria, dysphoria, false memory, dementia or paranoia. (In the last century most such fantasists spent some time in hospital telling the other patients that they had been raped by, say, the Duke of Edinburgh or indeed were the Duke himself. Nowadays they appear as witnesses in the criminal courts.) Today’s problem is that people with such “unlived experiences” are required, under Home Office orders, to be “believed” to have actually “lived the experience”. They are then likely to be appointed as witnesses in rape trials, or as senior managers in the NHS and Social Care, or as senior managers in victimhood support charities .
A sign of the times I guess Roy. The job spec in my day would have asked for ‘experience of, or experience in—required. ‘Lived’ would be taken as a sine qua non. It was axiomatic that that didn’t include fantasists or dreamers. What a state of affairs.
Unlived.
Erm….
People who are really calm about it all?
Oh. I thought you said livid experiences.
Dead folk.
Fortunately doctors will be using the green physician toolkit so advising against surgery. This will at least tick the boxes of:
Under Starmer people who have delusions that they are the wrong sex and that mutilation will end their dysphoria along with their Blue Screen of Death will have the right to an operating system patch, at state expense, which will lead to and endlesds series of rollbacks and re-installations until the hardware wears out. There is no “genitalia bug” in most cases, merely customer mis-operation.
Don’t forget circumcision for girls AND boys, or do we have to pander to religious sensitivities and sacrifice a cliterous and foreskin!
We need to ditch the NHS, it’s a pile of the proverbial.
My wife needed a hysterectomy but couldn’t even get on the waiting list which would then be a further 18 months before surgery. So we had to go private. Looks good on the stats though as it’s one more patient that never made it onto their waiting list.
I have numerous examples of cancelled appointments for members of my family and each time the cancellation letter comes in an envelope containing the sentence “Missed appointments waste NHS funds”. What a sick joke. They don’t need any help wasting funds.
I thought FGM was against the law
Why can we not be given the choice to butt out of contributing to the NHS and using the tax deduction to invest in our own private health cover?. The NHS is profligate with our money because it does not have to work for it, it does not have to compete. Its grossly fat, lazy and arrogant. It will continue to be so until the system is freed up, and a basic standard of care available to those who need it, for those who wish to take out insurance to go private then tax incentives should be available, likewise luxury non life threatening procedures such as breast enlargement, gender surger as described above etc should be paid by the individual, just as Botox, fillers etc are.
You could also be describing the Government the way it pisses money up the wall.
How many vaccines do children routinely get these days?
And then some parents think their children should get the Covid vaccines too.
And then some of these children are misled into believing that they were “born in the wrong body” and given puberty blockers (even still in the UK if former Mermaids CEO Susie Green is allowed to exploit a loophole in the law).
And then some of these children will feel depressed at some point and, with barely a moment’s thought, be put on antidepressants which can be incredibly difficult to ever come off.
How is a young child’s body supposed to cope with all this unnatural stuff being put into them?
A child who is raised healthily, with good nutrition, etc, doesn’t need any of this junk, never mind so much of it.
And then some of these young people will be prescribed cross sex hormones and some of the girls will undergo this ‘Masculinising Genital Gender Affirmation Surgery’.
Subjecting young people to so much unnatural medication and unnecessary surgery is a tragedy and it’s scandalous.
More outrageous communist mental illness from NHS people. There will one day be trials for these people and they will be made to pay for their crimes against children and confused people.
Having (bravely) looked at the Googled images, my main argument against masculinising surgery would be that IT SIMPLY CANNOT WORK. It’s like when I made my toddler a chainsaw out of a plastic container and a bike chain wrapped around a wooden blade. Only a two-year-old would make-believe that this was going to cut anything.
Surely there is no need for such surgery anyway? We are told that, if a young woman believes her gender is ‘male’, then it is – presumably because gender is not the same as sex. ‘Gender affirmation’ is just ticking a box, so how can ‘gender affirmation surgery’ even be a thing? I suppose they can’t call it a ‘sex change op’ these days because everyone knows you can’t change sex, but this is just as confusing, if not more so.