Wearily familiar. I'd be surprised that maternity care is somewhere where this is happening expect I'm not. At the core of this ideology is rank misogyny, so it makes absolute sense to see this happening in this location.
It's good though, to finally see that the profession concerned (midwives in this case) are fighting back. Dr David Bell is also quoted in the piece, pulls no punches.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/01/11/nhs-trans-plans-will-make-maternity-care-next-tavistock-midwives/
"Midwives are in revolt over new NHS transgender training plans which “could be a repeat of the Tavistock scandall_”.
NHS England is recruiting a group to run “gender inclusive trainingg_” across 40 NHS maternity services, such as trans-inclusive language and pronouns.
The sessions with up to £100,000 taxpayer funding will also include online resources, information posters and “best practice examples of how to care for trans and non-binary birthing people”.
The supplier, which will be decided this month, must have “a track record in trans awareness training” and will deliver classes for midwives, maternity support workers, nurses and others.
But 300 doctors, nurses, midwives, psychologists and other health workers have now written to NHS England demanding the plan be placed on “immediate hold” as it has “no evidence base”.
The letter to Lizzie Streeter, NHS England’s “national LGBT programme manager”, on Jan 9, which has been signed by 2,000 people in total, warns: “A scandal similar to Tavistockk_ could be repeated in NHS maternity services due to poor research and the influence of advocacy organisations.”
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust’s sole child gender clinic for England is being shut down by the NHSS_, following years of criticism over activist interference."