As someone living in NI, I'm not happy to hear this. I can't imagine that managers and staff in the various Trusts haven't been keeping an eye on the Peggie v Fife NHS case, so the decision to state these maximalist staff policies feels political rather than arising from ignorance of the employment legislation.
And, as a patient, I am extremely unhappy that no policies for patient safety/dignity have been put in place. Although, with these policies for staff they've implemented, I'm not hopeful that the Trusts would put patients' needs front and centre in any policies they created.
NI has cultural differences to GB, especially when it comes to many social issues, and people here are generally socially conservative. So the creation of these policies in the public sector does not go down well with many members of the communities that the Trusts are supposed to serve. It's imposed upon us, and legislators, civil servants, and bureaucrats of all sorts, don't seem to care that the public is not in alignment with the push towards full adherence to Genderist ideology.