NUJ Code of Conduct

[UnWilly]

National Union of Journalists Code of Conduct:

"Produces no material likely to lead to hatred or discrimination on the grounds of a person’s age, gender, race, colour, creed, legal status, disability, marital status, or sexual orientation."

Another Gender not Sex (although doesn't list gender reassignment either)

Forgot link

www.nuj.org.uk/about/nuj-code/#

Tweet Julie Bindel and Janice turner. Maybe they will suggest the nuj corrects it

I am getting so pissed off that codes of conduct I see specifically say you can’t say anything anti/abusive/offensive to x,y,z but SEX is just not there these days.

In Ireland the protected characteristic is gender not sex but in the rest of the UK it's sex not gender (apart from gender reassignment).
This union represents both Ireland and the rest of the UK so they should change it to both "sex" and "gender".

How can gender be a protected characteristic? It doesn't make sense, especially if sexual orientation is a protected characteristic. I can understand religious beliefs, especially in the island of Ireland.

I sent the following email:
Hello
your code of conduct lists the protected characteristics in the Equality Act incorrectly. Here is your list:
age, gender, race, colour, creed, legal status, disability, marital status, or sexual orientation.
Here is the correct one:
age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation
Please amend accordingly. It does not reflect well on your organisation that you cannot even google the protected characteristics. You fail to list sex as a protected characteristic. And you confuse gender reassignment with gender. Stop listening to Stonewall and start respecting the law

Everytime I encounter this language, I sent an email. It takes 5 minutes. Many organisations do not reply, but it is worth the effort. I used to be more polite, now really I have stopped caring. They are breaking the law. No respect

Anything in the codes of conduct about truth?

Probs gender protected since before this rubbish all started, the vast majority of people thought gender was synonymous with sex and most people actually still don’t know the difference.

Gender was an ending you put on if you were learning languages.
Sex was the difference between males and females. Obviously there were intersex also, but this was rare.

Rarer still were those poor desperate men who wanted to be female and were therefore seen as brave and stunning for wanting to 'switch sides' and become a second class citizen. This was in the 80s.

Gender was a linguistic term that got adopted as a euphemism for sex.

The reason we are now being asked to be ‘polite’ to people as regards to their ‘gender’ is that we were too polite when we were talking about sex.

In Ireland the protected characteristic is gender not sex but in the rest of the UK...

Call me a nitpicker, but Ireland does not belong to the UK.

Gender is nonsense ...

I say ‘sex’ now. Don’t care if I startle the horses.