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CEO of Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) Charity signs pledge "Stand with Trans"

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ArabeIIaScott · 01/08/2023 18:00

'The CEO of Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) Charity has signed a political pledge "Stand with Trans" GOSH have the contract for the new children's gender clinic. Are we heading for GIDS 2.0? Maintaining an apolitical stance is crucial for ensuring unbiased care.'

'The full pledge and it's signatories can be found here: https://charitysostraight.org.uk Lining up with Susie Green, Helen Webberley and Mermaids are the CEO's of The Quakers, Samaritans and The Children's Society along with young people's mental health services and Croydon NHS Trust'

https://twitter.com/Neverfallingfo1/status/1686312580774539264

https://charitysostraight.org.uk/

https://t.co/LQT1uLG7me

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OldCrone · 01/08/2023 19:08

That's a bizarre statement.

Never before have we seen so much hatred directed at the trans and non-binary community. And never before has the American ultra-conservative transphobic movement influenced UK culture to the degree it is doing right now.

I doubt they could come up with any evidence for this.

Discrimination is further compounded for trans people with intersecting identities, with voices of Black and Brown trans people often the first to be silenced, and those of trans women frequently left out of conversations around women’s rights.

Voices of transwomen are left out of conversations around women's rights because transwomen are men. They're treated the same as other men.

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 01/08/2023 18:59

"Because I am concerned that society is becoming less tolerant and that is not the world I want my children to live in"

Someone doesn't do irony.

DinnaeFashYersel · 01/08/2023 18:50

Fair enough but GOSH is the charity and not the actual hospital.

They raise the money. They don't make clinical decisions.

Mischance · 01/08/2023 18:43

Indeed so.

JellySaurus · 01/08/2023 18:41

DinnaeFashYersel · 01/08/2023 18:11

Of all the charity leaders who have signed this - why have you singled out GOSH?

GOSH = the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children.

If they align themselves with the likes of Green, Webberley and Mermaids they are pledging to take physically healthy children and make them sick. They are pledging to take confused/distressed/neurodiverse children with healthy bodies and make them sick with endocrine disorders, potentially sterilising them, and even preventing them from ever having satisfying sexual experiences as adults.

Of all the charity leaders who signed this pledge, those responsible for the well-being of children should definitely not have signed it.

nothingcomestonothing · 01/08/2023 18:39

DinnaeFashYersel · 01/08/2023 18:11

Of all the charity leaders who have signed this - why have you singled out GOSH?

Because they have the contract for the replacement for GIDS. So should be even more careful not be captured by political lobbying groups.

nocoolnamesleft · 01/08/2023 18:13

GOSH should know better. But then, they have always believed their own publicity a bit too much.

DinnaeFashYersel · 01/08/2023 18:11

Of all the charity leaders who have signed this - why have you singled out GOSH?

Rightsraptor · 01/08/2023 18:05

GOSH were (maybe still are?) flying the progress pride flag on one of their buildings.

I cancelled my direct debit.