Employment Tribunal finds NB does not meet PC of GR

Bristol Council has that covered for you 😂

https://dailysceptic.org/2025/11/30/cash-strapped-council-spends-1500-on-lgbt-bin-carts/

I'm not quite sure the council thought this through when they decided that refuse trucks should be the venue for Pride / rainbow logos

At Hammersmith tube they write quotations on a whiteboard. Today's was "No matter how kind you are, no matter how much effort you make, an ungrateful person will never be grateful ". I thought of the MN vipers when I read it!

Considering the way some of the rainbow badge and rainbow lanyard crew behave, they're the least 'safe' of anyone. Deeply judgemental and authoritarian. If I was looking for someone at work to tell my troubles to, the rainbow crowd would be the last on my list.

Maybe there will be a time soon when NHS departments will be issued with progress pride branded bins where all this toot can be deposited.

Where there is a need for branding it should surely just say NHS

Around 2019 the man who’s now CEO of CDDFT, Steve Russell, became CEO of a trust I worked at and the message we got from his meetings with management was that he was very strongly in favour of all staff signing the declaration so they could wear the rainbow badge. We were told he would be noting how many badges were worn as he visited the various depts and services. Consequently we were all expected to sign these bits of paper and wear these badges lest Steve visit us and find us lacking.

From my googling it looks like he’s had a number of roles since then. I can’t say I think he’s a true believer, just a bandwagon jumper, but nor do I think he’ll do any actual good for women working at or under the care of CDDFT.

edit: I quoted because it was the tokenism comment that started my chain of thought - I completely agree!

edit #2 😳: CDDFT is the trust featured in the Darlington nurses tribunal and also in the recent damning report about breast cancer care.

This.

It goes beyond the workplace too. For example some teachers at my children's school use preferred pronouns in their email signatures. The school also heavily pushes a message of "kindness" to the children that it's important to use the pronouns that are requested by someone because it's about "respect".

By logical implication, any teacher who uses preferred pronouns in emails is telling children who might believe themselves to be trapped in the wrong body that they are safe. Presumably safer than the children's parents (in their own eyes).. and they are not thinking that non-affirming parents might have good reasons for not wholeheartedly celebrating their child's journey along the gender affirmation conveyor belt towards irrerversible surgery.

Obviously in the workplace there are other consequences for anyone deemed "unsafe" by implication e.g. job loss, social ostracisation.... and/or being named as a respondent in a tribunal.

The badge is a simple, visual symbol identifying that, if an NHS staff member or volunteer is wearing one, they are a person who an LGBT+ person (or their friends or family members) can talk to about issues relating to sexuality and gender identity.

I can't be the only person who activity avoids deep conversations with their colleagues about their personal lives? I don't think that males me unsafe....

An NHS HCP shouldn’t need a special badge / lanyard / certificate for people to be able to talk to them about what is worrying them. It’s what being a healthcare professional is all about.

I would bet quite a lot that in that photo there are several people who would run a mile from any attempt to talk to them about sexuality or gender identity. It's utter tokenism.

Also has an undertone of - don't talk to the doctor who doesn't wear a badge, he's not part of my echo chamber and might tell me something I don't want to hear

It is quite damning by implication, isnt it? 'I'm safe, not like the other bastards'

Yes, I'm wary around anyone wearing a ranbow lanyard, frankly. I know that some people would be delighted to hear that, and those people should not be in a caring profession.

I am very wary around those who wear rainbow lanyards (I’m in HE). Happily, there are fewer of them now.

Ha - I used to think the rainbow lanyard was worn by LGBT colleagues to show that they were happy and confident to be out in the workplace, but a few years ago I saw a chap I know on Linked In posting that he also wore one - despite being a standard issue straight white British bloke - to let ALL minorities of ANY type at work know that if they were having problems, he was a safe person to ask for help.

I must admit I’d missed exactly when the rainbow lanyard became a “I am a decent human being” symbol, like a kind of roving DEI mental health first aider.

Just to add that the offensive 'hi' was said whilst the colleague was in conversation with someone else. A perfectly reasonable way to acknowledge someone passing by whilst not being rude to the person you're talking with.

I wonder what the claimant expected of the colleague? A curtsy perhaps?

Here's a photo for the first part of the CWP "How it started...How it's going" meme.
Members of CWP executive board with NHS Rainbow Badges.
https://www.chesterstandard.co.uk/news/18260016.cheshire-wirral-partnership-nhs-trust-signs-rainbow-badge-scheme/

Like of victimhood envy. (typo again - sorry)

Like a victimhood envy?

A combination of real-life Four Yorkshiremen onedownmanship, a desire to appropriate victimhood to gain social currency within a social structure that purports to give your opinion more weight the more oppressed you are, and a desire to be absolved of the sense of guilt that such a social structure induces in anyone deemed to be privileged and hence an oppressor.

Is there a new scourge in the west.

Like of victimhood envy.

ie common among those of fairly middle of the road life style, getting by, having interests and backgrounds that many share.

And yet this isn't good enough.

There is no status to be such a person.

And what with social media and other outlets, if you have not stand out talents or back story, who is going to take notice of you.

So what better way to become important, make others acknowledge you, than to aspire to become, and claim you have become one of the most discriminated groups in the UK (or even the world).

And now with the TRA narrative having full hold over most sensibilites, you can become on the most oppressed.

And be applauded for it.

And punish all those who never noticed you when you were just one among many.

All true except she’s not suffering from trans phobia, It’ll be non binary or’enbie’ phobia. Keep up. 🤣

It a new and unique phobia that those that have it and display it don’t know its exists. No one is scared of non binary humans - as sex is binary so nothing to be scared of. But if they just go about being human and accepting truths like sex is binary they are unknowingly being phobic of NBs.

It’s similar to biologists who study species. They are unicorn 🦄 phobic purely because they accept that unicorns haven’t been found in nature.

Leaves me wondering if H gets preferentially assigned to provide therapy in gender questioning cases?

This person is an NHS therapist. It'd be bad enough if she were a data manager or something, she's clearly a nightmare colleague and employee.

But the utter narcissism coupled with the fact that her actual job is to help vulnerable patients to improve their mental health. She, her line manager and her clinical supervisor should all be on a PIP at the very least, all have utterly failed to put patients first.

I'd bet good money that she can't see any of it though, I'd bet good money that's she's currently off sick due to the terrible transphobia she's been subjected to by the bigoted court.

She failed to acknowledge her by, erm, acknowledging her. Christ in a fucking pogo stick.