Civil Servants Can Use Male or Female Security Passes and Can Change Gender Daily
The Home Office’s policy of issuing dual security passes to nonbinary staff for flexible gender identity presentation has critics arguing it poses security risks and unnecessarily promotes gender ideology. The Telegraph has the story.
Nonbinary staff in the Home Office are given male and female security passes allowing them to change their gender identity day by day.
According to the Home Office’s gender reassignment and gender identity policy, nonbinary officials can “present in the gender which matches their identity on a given day”.
The guidance, issued in 2010, updated in 2021, and described as “current policy”, continues: “This includes practical considerations such as access to premises.
“The department has introduced dual passes for staff that wish to attend work as more than one gender.”
Miriam Cates, the Conservative MP, told the Telegraph the nonbinary pass policy poses “serious security and safeguarding risks”.
She said: “A policy that enables someone working in what should be a secure environment to have a different identity on different days of the week is clearly open to abuse and is unworkable.
“The obsession of some senior civil servants with pushing gender ideology in the workplace is very concerning.”
Helen Joyce, the Director of Advocacy at the gender-critical group Sex Matters, said: “These ‘diversity champion’ roles are clearly being used to push contested beliefs about ‘gender identity’ as something distinct from a person’s sex.
“That’s got no basis in either U.K. law or biological reality.
“When civil servants promote this by writing policies that embed gender ideology with concepts like ‘nonbinary identities’, or that promote the use of ‘preferred pronouns’ and suggest it’s bigoted to use phrases like ‘man up’, they’re failing in their statutory duty to be politically neutral and impartial.
“This isn’t just a waste of time and taxpayers’ money; it’s discriminatory towards the majority of perfectly sensible civil servants who don’t believe in this nonsense and just want to do their job.
“The Home Secretary needs to get a grip and tear these policies up.”
The gender reassignment policy promises for transitioning staff “a gender identity liaison officer (GILO) who will act as coordinator throughout an individual’s gender reassignment”.
In March this year, Steve Dann, Chief Operating Officer of Border Force, which is part of the Home Office, wrote a blog on the department’s intranet celebrating ‘Transgender Day of Visibility’, where he urged officials to use people’s “preferred pronouns”.
The mandarin said: “As an LGBT+ champion, Trans Day of Visibility is about recognising the contributions of our trans colleagues to the crucial work we do here in Border Force.”
Mr. Dann, who is paid around £150,000, committed Border Force to being a work environment that is “supportive, inclusive and respectful for all regardless of a colleague’s gender identity”.
He invited staff to “share their thoughts and personal stories” to a Border Force email address.
In the same blog, Jackie Armstrong, described as “Director of Operational Capabilities Command, Immigration Enforcement (IE)” claimed to be a “straight ally” and the “IE LGBT+ champion”.
David Kuenssberg, who earns around £150,000 as Director General of Corporate and Delivery, is another Home Office LGBT+ champion.
On June 26th he wrote a ‘Pride message’ to civil servants, in which he claimed Pride has in recent years “become more inclusive” and now celebrates “transgender and other sexualities and gender identities”. …
Paul Lincoln, who was promoted to the Ministry of Defence in April this year, was Director General of Border Force and the Home Office gender equality champion.
In May 2021, Mr. Lincoln introduced the Home Office Gender Equality Action Plan, which aimed to boost gender equality in the department.
He wrote: “I am clear that the issues facing people of all gender identities in the workplace are complicated and often conflicting.”
In November 2019, Mr. Lincoln published an intranet blog entitled ‘Men as allies’ in which he told officials to “mind your language”, claiming “gender-based language can have a negative impact, even if unintended”.
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Yes. I look forward to seeing how this will work out in practice. One wonders if “trans-racials” and “furries” will also be catered for -will one have to say – “come here. Good bitch…”?
Personally I think they should all man up. A grown man should be able to cope with being called George instead of Georgina.
P.S. As they say at our anti-lockdown church, I don’t believe in pride. I believe in humility.
Hopefully they can self identify their gender to be useless, moronic, perverted, psychotic and self identify their job as fired, terminated, eliminated. The fewer of these charlatan assholes the better.
The sooner the Tax Payers’ Alliance or similar group are actively involved with the spend thrift jobs for the boys cartel of the home office – oops, you can’t say “jobs for the boys” now…
Why not more often? Don’t you oppress me!
I think they should be encouraged to work from home.
I think they should be sent for a mental health assessment.
https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1695824870356009146
Or even encouraged to work
They can change neither sex nor gender.
Nothing a good lobotomy can’t cure;
https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1695464396842012839
Gender (when applied to people and not applied to nouns) is a made-up category from a (quasi-)religious theory about human nature which proposes that humans are comprised two independent parts, a physical body and some supernatural identiy which transcends the physical existence of the body and is thus much more important. Considering this, people who believe in this theory can change their gender as often as they want. But they shouldn’t have a right to force others to even pay lip services to their beliefs, let alone conform with them.
It’s actually quite telling that people can sell this to other people and claim it would be science despites it’s obviously nothing but the Christian body/soul duality repackaged to sell a different set of concepts.
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The lack of ‘integrity’ as discussed previously is clearly missing amongst ALL the civil servants named in this article. This lot are the quality rubbish. To a man they know every dodge in the book, corner them and they will threaten legal action and probably with Union support and a work ethic that would even embarass a sitting MP. Talk the talk? You bet. A threat to the country? Damn right. This lot are the archetypal useful idiots.
This idea is a severe security risk. The other spare pass can be sold to anyone, and the owner is unaffected. B*** stupid idea!
I used to be indecisive, now I’m not so sure.
Sack the lot of them and start again with competent people who concentrate on the job they are paid for in our county’s interest, not theirs or the forces against us
Give us a bloody break, for god’s sake. Do these people know how ridiculous they are?
Considering that they’re spending our money on this, including all the money channeled into gender consultant companies and the like owned by their buddies, they probably have a rather different idea of who’s looking ridiculous in this case. After all, they’re funneling it into stuff which has absolutely no relation to the work they’re supposed to do and they’re doing this in plain sight, actually even with boastful press releases about it, and on the flimsiest kind of pretexts.
A cleanup of the augean stables would really be needed here: Fire everyone whose work doesn’t just involve taking orders from higher up, ban them from ever working for the government in any capacity again and replace them with people who have gone through rigid selection process and – that’s important – who are forbidden from being members of any political party as that’s an obvious conflict of interest with regards to the job they’re supposed to do.
PANIC – I’ve forgotten my gender identity today, can I pass through anyway?