Hospital apologised TWICE for misgendering.

Oh dear, I didn't realise it was a violation of guidelines to quote the username and gender someone is using for themselves on their public Facebook page. :( I thought that was okay in cases like Phillip / Pippa Bunce where an individual is currently publically using two names and genders.

The readers of the Mail certainly tell it how they see it in the comments.

If I saw a man wearing a stupid outfit like that Id assume he was dressing up as a laugh to visit a friend

If I saw a man wearing a stupid outfit like that, visiting a hospital ward, I would think he was some kind of exhibitionist getting his rocks off.

Along with being v fond of telling women they should “die in a fire”

From a quick look at their Facebook page and those articles this person appears to be needing support, either for mental health or learning disabilities. Poor person. It's vunerable folk like this that I worry about in all this.

I don't think I've ever arrived anywhere to have someone announce me with 'Erm, it's a woman..." as this person was apparently greeted with "Erm, it's a man..." Why do I get the impression that there's an awful lot of embellishment to this tale?

Just googled Justin Moorhouse - I can see why your DB thinks that Maybe the nurse thought Chantelle was Justin ? In the photo of Chantelle wearing that stripey shirt and with vertical hair they look like Prue Leith. So much confusion.

"How can I help it? he blubbered. "How can I help seeing what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four."
"Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five.....You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane."

"We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us: so long as he resists us we never destroy him.....It is intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world, however secret and powerless it may be."

George Orwell "Nineteen Eighty-Four"

Sarahjconner If you look on Facebook that is exactly as he looked before wearing women's clothes!

I'm happy to be pulled up if I break the guidelines, but like you I don't know how I did

Getting clarity on how deleted posts break guidelines and how to avoid breaking guidelines going forward is something I have found to be extremely difficult.

I hope you are right Ancient and rolled eyes it is. I have visions of nurses being put through re-education training for this. Featuring fetish lingerie catalogues as some sort of grim ‘spotters guide’ to gender ID.

Polyester red lace babydoll = pronoun ‘she/her’, protected characteristic letter K.

That's interesting needmorespace in light of my deletion. I'm happy to be pulled up if I break the guidelines, but like you I don't know how I did.

I've just remembered, I was wrong, I did post again last night. It was something along the lines of an evolutionary trait to be able to distinguish between the two biological sexes. But apparently that's not allowed. Funny old world.

I posted a thread about this yesterday but it was pulled. Have no idea why? Are we not allowed to draw attention to this story? Have not received any notification from MN to suggest why?
Nothing in my op was contentious to my knowledge.
I am so sick of this shite actually. Dressing in red nylon makes you a woman.
It is a mens sexual rights problem.

This is worrying for me personally. I'm a nurse and my ds2 who has aspergers is expressing an interest in going in to nursing. How would he cope with this particular individual?

It's tricky enough for psychiatric professionals to deal with narcissists, but ordinary staff can't be expected to manage this.

The hospital should point out that as nurse she would be pretty shit at her job if couldn’t tell the difference between male and female! Or are we now suggesting that NHS staff pretend to be blind and stupid?

HumberElla actually I bet the nurse isn't being reprimanded. The trust will phrase statements so it looks that way but in reality there'll just be rolled eyes. Nurses have enough shit to put up with without them being further alienated.

I would love to know who this unfortunate nurse is, who is being forced to apologise. I bet he or she is being properly dragged through the mill for their apparent transgression. Poor bloody sod.

I'd imagine anyone seeing 'Chantelle' dressed like that would think 'bloke in fancy dress'. I know I would.