NHS nurse on my facebook just changed her profile picture to this

I refer you to 3.1 principles section of the policy for a start :https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/social-media-policy.pdf

Why not?

Trans activists have absolutely no problem getting women fired for saying that humans can't change sex.

She won't get fired anyway, but this sort of thing is really inappropriate and we need to start taking a stand against it.

I wouldn't feel safe in a ward staffed by someone like that because she's the type of person who would lie to the police and say I couldn't possibly have been raped on the ward because there were no males present.

This.

Funnily enough, there weren’t visitors on my ward at 3am when staffing ( by disclosure checked staff) was absolutely minimal and I and other patients were asleep.

You do know that nurses have no say on who is admitted where as a patient?

You really want men totally barred from women's wards? That's going to make staffing a bit awkward, to say nothing of visiting times.

I would find it intimidating, OP. I would be unsafe in hospital if staff supported male intruders and had a hostile attitude to me for objecting. Very unprofessional.

I agree with the OP that this is very unprofessional.

It's fine for nurses and doctors and others within the NHS to post political opinions on social media - to say, I think the NHS is underfunded, or I support the doctors' strike or whatever. It's not fine to make this kind of personalised comment because it's your job as a health professional to treat all patients equally regardless of their political opinions, their ethnicity, their sex, their gender identity, whatever.

I imagine different NHS trusts have different NHS guidelines, but it wouldn't surprise me if the post was in breach of those guidelines.

I would rather share a hospital room with a transman than a (female) transphobe. (I don't consider being GC to be trabsphobic but some women genuinely are) but that's a matter of preference, not an expression of how much I would worry about my personal safety in that context.

But the point is that "not wanting to be vulnerable/semiconscious with this person sharing my bedroom" is not the same thing as expressing hatred of that person or the group/category the person belongs to.

It is absolutely known and provable that women are more vulnerable and more likely to be assaulted in a mixed sex environment than in a single sex environment. That does not mean that every woman in a mixed sex environment gets attacked or that every male is an attacker, but it's safe to be in a single sex environment.

Sex and gender are not the same thing. A room containing a woman and a transwoman is a mixed sex environment.

It's against NHS Social Media policy

You mean if a woman said they would rather share a ward with another female with different political leanings than with a man when they where very vulnerable?

So if it said "socialist" "vegan" or "black person" you'd say that?

What if she was describing you?

Yes.

The poster linking Pink News are a reliable news source is hilarious 😂

Just linking this here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7742703/Women-https://x.com/DearRebelAda/status/1676611864711626753?s=20-patients-complain-having-biological-male-bed-risk-kicked-out.html

God you're absolutely right. I'm so sorry. She has almost certainly sensed through the ether or been told by a carrier pigeon that, somewhere on the internet, somebody she has never met is calling her an idiot and it's very probably shutting her down. How clever of you to see that.

Also how clever of you to see that calling someone you don't know an idiot when they can't hear you and will never know is exactly like calling a colleague an idiot to their face. I'm really grateful for your insights.

If she lists her profession and employer on social media fine, you have a point, but it might just be her personal social media account and the OP happens to know she’s a nurse

Does she know the first openly trans MP is a Tory!??

Does she know that Rosie Duffield and jess Philips both spoke in favour of clarifying the Equality Act at the parliamentary debates? In favour of protecting same sex spaces for women?

Of course it is, you are basically telling her to shut up & some folk called an idiot might well do just that, effectively shutting them down.... do call people idiots at work?

No, i doubt you do.

Like i said, you don't even know her.

It's a political message. Thus it is innappropriate if it is known she is a nurse working for the NHS. As a woman I would rather share a ward with a Tory than a transwoman - less chance of assault, and there won't be anyone lying and telling me there are only women on the ward.

Given that GC feminists freminists ridicule non-GC feminists for somehow lacking critical thinking, this thread is hilarious!!! 😂🙄

The sheer confusion over ‘sharing a ward with’ and ‘treating patients’.

And the debate over whether this nurse should be reported, and the desire expressed by some that she should be sacked for expressing an opinion that is…

The hypocrisy (and woolly thinking) is very entertaining this morning. Thank you!

So based on this anything centre left to left = anti women . Okaaay! It’s a brave move cotton!

Someone up post asked if we would refuse treatment from a paediatrician on the basis that they transed their child. I would absolutely ask for a different clinician if I was presented with one who had so little understanding of evidenced based medicine that they gave their child puberty blockers. I would definitely walk out of the office of a CAMHS psychologist if they had or asked my child what their pronouns were. Just as I would if they suggested I treat them with chakra realignment, or asked what their spirit animal was.

Of course calling someone an idiot is included within any reasonable understanding of freedom of speech. Obviously more can be achieved when you concentrate on the content and not the speaker but that's not a restrictive bar, as the nurse's post demonstrates.

No, calling her an idiot is not an attack on her freedom of speech. HTH.