Gender critical and working for NHS

My local London hospital has brought out these cute rainbow badges. I have not seen any nurse doctor that wears them.

I will not be choosing ‘woman including trans women’, I would be choosing ‘prefer not to say’ in that situation.

I just keep my head down and try to stick to factual situations. I note for example that a past team leader has adopted pronouns in email signature but also that she has a gender neutral name so it could be useful to do so. I don't wear politicised lanyards. I can't ever see myself challenging a colleague on their choice of toilet use tbh unless I thought there was a specific issue.

I'm both relieved and surprised to see that the Gender field on our records is used for the sex of all patients, as one of my greatest fears of this movement is someone getting the wrong treatment because their sex is incorrect on the record. That to me is worth fighting for.

NHS here. We have similar nonsense. I'm considering contacting my GP and making sure they haven't, without my consent, decided to log me as "woman (including trans woman)" because I have no idea what made up definition of 'woman' they are using which includes men, but clearly it does not include me. It's offensive and othering to think they have the right to categorise me without my consent. In no other area are they allowed to do that. Imagine if they just decided to allocate me a religion FFS.

I work in the public sector. i ignore all info relating to pronouns or being an "ally". I've never been silent about my gender critical beliefs and how they are a protected characteristic. I have said that if i am ever formally instructed to use pronouns (which can't be insisted upon) I will be using either 1) what/ever, queen/bee or emperor/penguin. Ridiculous state of affairs. I've shared info with colleagues at different times on the Alison Bailey case, The Cass review etc and have not yet encountered any hostility. Perhaps, I've been very lucky!

New staff wellness centre at my hospital. Not holding out much hope after filling in the gym induction form...

NHS here in Scotland - we don’t seem to be quite as woo as some of the Trusts in England thankfully. I wear my WSPU lanyard with pride and hell will freeze over before I add completely pointless pronouns to my email signature.

Also someone on twitter posted this about pronouns:

"Pronouns in the social media bio is apparently sometimes used as a signal by older men to show younger men that they will talk about sex in DMs"

I'm totally going to use that if requested to share my pronouns and explain I'm not comfortable doing so incase it gives the wrong message.

Only this week our CEO has recorded a message encouraging us to add pronouns to our email so I'm excited to come out with that line!

Obviously (or not obviously here but to most who know me irl) I'm not an older man, but maybe women use it as a signal too ????

And this one helpfully supplied the induction pack which gives some indication of all the policies and gender neutral wording and other requirements that trusts are meant to comply with if they wish to be accredited to the scheme.

www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/870748/response/2080857/attach/html/5/Induction%20pack.docx.html

OP you can find out a lot more about what is going on in the NHS from these FOIs about the Rainbow Badge scheme.

NHS England has given a list of all the trusts involved here.

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/costoffthenhssrainbowbadgee_pr

I work for the NHS and either ignore or curiously challenge the dogma. There are others who outright rage against it. The trust seems to have lost its sense of menacing power in relation to silencing dissenters.
There is a bit of a split in the staff between those who are anti gender critical and those who are gender critical ......and many who want to keep a low profile (who I consider closet GC).
The Trust is feeling heat from the media, has lost a couple of court cases/tribunals and a big contract for delivering specific services but still sticks it's head in the sand about its shortcomings and is bullish about maintaining non evidence based aspects trans propaganda. They went as far as removing a couple of 'wrong think' books from the library.
However, several staff are vocal in demanding that alternative views are tolerated and they advertise via whole trust emails that they house copies of the banned books in their offices for private loaning

I don’t work for the nhs but wanted to add at my office, a lot were putting their pronouns on emails when it first became trendy while i was on mat leave. I didn’t bother and no one forced me, and I would think you can’t be forced either.

I would also say, my assumption is most patients would prefer you just to treat them as ‘normal’. I had a call with a consultant midwife the other day and it irrated me when she kept saying ‘pregnant people’.

"I’m anxious about things like being told to state my pronouns"

If stating my pronouns at work was the only thing that made me anxious, I'd frankly consider myself very fortunate.

*Single sex facilities

My hospital HR seem to use gender rather than sex now and there’s no option to opt for female sex - it makes a nonsense of the sexuality question that follows.
i am concerned that the NHS unions have also been captured - how I would ever fight for sex based rights when sex isn’t recorded?
A major concern is hospital policies that seem to have been rewritten to comply with Stonewall and not the law. The major push for single sex has been forgotten and I would not trust that a man with a fetish wouldn’t end up on a female ward if he says he’s trans.
In training we are told to be mindful that toddlers may identify as the opposite sex - I would think this is a major safeguarding issue.

Luckily I haven’t been asked about pronouns at any of the trusts I work for, but a consultant I work with and another member of staff were discussing it saying they think it’s all bollocks and will refuse to put them on their emails, so I don’t know if it’s coming soon…

I've actually been quite vocal that I am gender critical and absolutely won't be adding anything to my email signature or wearing any pronoun badges.

I feel very strongly that language should be clear AND accurate AND succinct.

I am supposed to ask the gender of the patient at work, I don’t. There isn’t a sex option now.

I consider myself to be gender critical and work for the NHS. I've avoided writing anything about preferred pronouns at the bottom of my email and feel I have to be careful of what I say. I.e I just go quiet if it's mentioned at work. I feel like my profession is meant to be very 'twaw' but I simply can't agree with this.

I see the Royal College of Occupational Therapist has been trans captured. No doubt purposeful targeting of a women dominated profession.

This is so common. Where I work, 3 out of 8 board members have trans identifying dc and it massively affects the organisation's outlook. It should not.

Nobody ever asked me about my pronouns, but when I began a placement at an NHS hospital recently, I was given an ID card with "My preferred pronoun is He/Him" printed at the bottom. I didn't say anything but as I don't have any preferred pronouns, I have covered that bit of the card with tape.

I guess the person printing the cards didn't like asking the question but was obliged to complete the field so he just looked at the person in front of him and put down sex-based pronouns. Maybe he'd ask the question only of people he thought looked likely to actually have preferred pronouns, such as men in dresses and women with beards?

The trouble is that one of my managers has a trans child who is having private treatment. The manger is very pro trans rights.

GC beliefs are protected in law. I realise that you will not want to put that to the test necessarily and go through proving that to an internal panel or through a court of law. But do take some confidence from that right.