NHS Lanarkshire new policy on Transgender Employees ignores female staff's rights

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The above link should download a copy of the Lanarkshire policy on treatment of Transgender staff. No consideration of the needs of female staff or patients is mentioned. Totally ignores single sex exemptions.

Can you post a screenshot? I'm not clicking on links when I can't see where they're coming from or what might download.

It’s a legit link from the NHS Lanarkshire website.

pdf link on this page.
www.nhslanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk/download/supporting-trans-staff-in-the-workplace-policy/

Apologies for unclear link but my copied NHS link didn't work. Document is about 28 pages long so screenshots not possible.

pbs.twimg.com/media/EfEWKjeWkAASjQ9?format=jpg&name=900x900

The above is a link to a screenshot of a part of page 11. This was copied from the twitter account of @SVPhillimore

Against the law surely?

What consultation was there prior to this publication?

It's the first I hear about it - is it new?

July 2020

I go on holiday and look what happens!

I wonder how much help they had from Stonewall to write that 🤔

You'll not be surprised that significant input was received from Stonewall Scotland.
See section 7.5 of the Equality & Diversity Annual Report of NHS Forth Valley, who first developed the guidance.

It's equally not-surprising that Stonewall then declared it to be an example of best practice.
www.pressreader.com/uk/stirling-observer/20180207/281638190656360

All the midwife genital sorting hat nonsense at the beginning... this is the nhs for goodness sake.

I wonder what stance NHS Lanarkshire (I live in Lanarkshire) would take on female patients having objections to be being treated or cared for by trans staff in certain situations.

Interesting. Lanarkshire NHS document says they assign a sex at birth. I imagine if you can say 'No, you're wrong. It is a boy and not a girl' and get a birth certificate in the chosen sex. If it is not real biological sex any more.

They state it on page 7, paragraph 4.1.

Oh my. I have just read on. Can NHS really say 'it's a girl/boy' anymore after this document.

Rediculous, they don't assign a gender at birth, but observe the biological sex. If it's saying they assign a sex that's worrying for an NHS document, you would hope they understood biological reality and their processes.

Examples of discrimination: Not being addressed, or thought of, as belonging to their gender or not having their new name used.

thought of

FUCK RIGHT OFF.

I am refusing to tick any kind of box on forms asking for my sex is the question is 'What sex were you assigned at birth?' - I was not assigned anything, I was a human female infant aka a girl. I am now an adult human female aka a woman.

Snort at Sorting Hat though

I reserve the right to think all sorts of thoughts about all sorts of people, including those who came up with this document. And those who signed off on it. Fecking woke culture.

Just don’t tick box.

I am not a tick. I am a free woman.

@Bella2020

I wonder what stance NHS Lanarkshire (I live in Lanarkshire) would take on female patients having objections to be being treated or cared for by trans staff in certain situations.

They are not to be informed. Trans status is not to be acknowledged to "service users" at any stage of transition. Expect to either be lied to, gaslit or ignored.

Interesting. Lanarkshire NHS document says they assign a sex at birth. I imagine if you can say 'No, you're wrong. It is a boy and not a girl' and get a birth certificate in the chosen sex. If it is not real biological sex any more.
I wonder if you could sue them if they get it wrong. You spend years bring your child up as a girl as that was what they were assigned at the hospital. Then your daughter suddenly announces she's a boy. The bloody doctors/midwifes got it wrong!

@334bu

t.co/mQxXUG41xZ?amp=1 The above link should download a copy of the Lanarkshire policy on treatment of Transgender staff. No consideration of the needs of female staff or patients is mentioned. Totally ignores single sex exemptions.

The single sex exemptions are not compulsory. Just an option to achieve a legitimate aim. And impossible to police.

The single sex exemptions are not compulsory. Just an option to achieve a legitimate aim. And impossible to police.

You're making a very good case for repeal of the GRA. If the GRA means that some men can legally be women, and therefore it is impossible to have a genuinely female-only space, then the GRA should go.

Lots of things are "impossible to police". It's impossible to stop all crime, for instance. But it doesn't mean that we shouldn't even try to stop crime. A hospital is one of the things which can fairly easily be dealt with on a sex basis.