Some Common Sense Restored to the NHS as Government Pledges to Block Gender-Neutral Language and Men on Female Wards
Women’s rights campaigners and health experts today welcomed Steve Barclay’s commitment to fight wokery and restore “common sense” in the NHS by blocking gender neutral language and men on female wards. The Mail has the story.
The Health Secretary detailed the move in a speech at the Tory Party conference as he slammed the “unacceptable” use of gender-neutral language on advice pages for female-only conditions like cervical cancer.
Sex-specific language has now been “fully restored” on offending health sections as a result of his intervention, he announced.
Mr. Barclay also boasted that he had stopped the NHS from “ordering staff to declare pronouns to each new patient”.
As part of his speech in Manchester, Mr. Barclay revealed he was “going further” as he unveiled proposals to ban trans women — biological men who identify as being the opposite gender — using female-only hospital wards.
He argued it was “vital women’s voices are heard” and the “privacy, dignity and safety of all patients are protected”.
Trans-inclusive terms like ‘chestfeeding’ and ‘birthing person’ have crept into usage within hospitals and medical settings over the past few years despite backlash from campaigners and health experts.
“We know what a woman is, and I know the vast majority of NHS staff and patients do too,” Mr Barclay said.
“That is why I ordered a reversal of unacceptable changes to the NHS website that erased women for conditions such as cervical cancer, and stopped the NHS from ordering staff to declare pronouns to each new patient.”
Outside the conference hall, Mr. Barclay added: “We need a commonsense approach to sex and equality issues in the NHS – that is why today I am announcing proposals for clearer rights for patients.
“And I can today confirm that sex-specific language has now been fully restored to online health advice pages about cervical and ovarian cancer and the menopause.
“It is vital women’s voices are heard in the NHS and the privacy, dignity and safety of all patients are protected.”
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Wow I’m really happy to see some sanity returning to Clown World. It’s so rare to hear of anything changing for the better that I’m still in a state of disbelief! What about the managers who allowed this to happen in the first place? Can’t they get sacked for unethical conduct or something?
Anyway, there’s also another bit of good news, which is significant. I don’t have the original source, soz;
”UK to issue Lifetime BAN to sex offenders from changing their gender or name.
The UK Home Secretary has announced anyone convicted of sex crimes will not be allowed to change their gender identity or name in order to keep them out of women’s prisons and women’s spaces.
The proposal would close a current loophole where male sex offenders have been claiming to identify as ‘women’ so they can avoid being put on the offender’s registry and gain access to women’s spaces.”
https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1709216248989446635
*Edit* I thought The Times was usually paywalled but this doesn’t appear to be;
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/4e2e437c-6159-11ee-aae8-b941e584b333?shareToken=604c680fb43409a93c9f29817aca545c
There’s no reason why this should be restricted to convicted sex offenders. eg, what about men with a history of committing violent non-sexual crimes? Not that this should be restricted to these, either. Why should people be allowed to evade the somewhat reduced sex-live-opportunities which come with a prison sentence by declaring that they really don’t want to suffer them? I remember a case of a pretend-woman placed into a women’s jail only to cause two or three other inmates to get pregnant and protesting that his need for love and company would suffer if he’d be relocated to a men’s prison (which he ultimatively was).
I hope he is now married to a British ‘Bubba’.
What about men with no known history of violent or sexual crimes? What about men with no unknown history of these crimes?, every offender commits a first offence. The precautionary principle says no biological men in women’s spaces full stop, no if’s no but’s.
“What about the managers who allowed this to happen in the first place? Can’t they get sacked for unethical conduct or something?”
Leave the buggers in place. Can you think of anything that would be more painful than having to enforce the changes. If they won’t or don’t then sack them.We must be fair about this. 😈
Why now? Why all of this ” Yes the government is hearing what ordinary people want” malarkey? 13 Fu”£ing years they’ve been in! And now they get realistic 🙄!
There has been a Conservative government for the last 13 years, but there have been many different Conservative governments during those 13 years.
Steve Barclay has been the Health Secretary for less than a year (and for just two months prior to that).
There is no unity of thought in the Conservative party, far from it.
And similarly, Suella Braverman has been Home Secretary for less than a year.
That’s certainly a welcome announcement. But what effects it’ll have in practice remains to be determined. NHS trusts have been ignoring the government in the past. Creative attempts at complying with the letter of what Barclay announced while defying the intent behind it are also to be expected.
Public sector leeches will ignore any government instructions
Unless it’s a Labour government.
How much has been spent and how many management and medical staff man years on this which should have been stopped by the Ministers before it ever got off the ground.
It is conference season and an election is runoures to be just over a year away. Any statement now is valueless because these numpties either approved or couldn’t be bothered to do anything about all the policy developments which we object to. They are divorced from the people and from reality.
Not that I’m cynical or anything, but this all seems like vacuous vote-chasing conference-speak to me. They will have to work a lot harder than spout a few platitudes to the faithful to de-woke the NHS & GMC etc if they want show they’re not just one side of the Uniparty front for the Dark State.
They’ve had years to do this, as well as cancel the NHS diversity hires.
Why now?
A May election looms and tricky Rishy wants to place a fag paper’s width between Tory LGBT and Labour LGBT.
Don’t buy the spin. Words are cheap. Election promises are worthless.
My priority is keeping ;labour out….
Public sector parasites see themselves as the controllers of government – they will ignore any instructions.
“Block men on female wards” they’re having a laugh. As soon as they run out of space they have mixed wards. They have done for at least 10 years. There was never any question that the men were predatory and no rapes in all that time. Then a bloke puts on a dress, is admitted to a female ward and suddenly we hear of a woman being raped … by another woman (because there were no men on the ward at the time)! Talk about delusional!
Government pledges will mean absolutely nothing other than hot air at the party conference. The NHS Trusts (was ever such a word abused?) will carry on appointing their DIE numpties at pace.