NatWest staff

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Astounding! I wonder if they would be so happy to fund hysterectomy surgery for women with agonising endometriosis or breast reduction surgeries for women with horrific back pain!

I wonder if they will relax their rules on things like opening bank accounts and getting a credit card or a mortgage, such that the name you give is under who you are...? Probably not (!)

Given that all NatWest are doing is adding transgender services to an already-existing package of private health insurance offered to employees, they probably do.

This is fabricated outrage over nothing. They're adults, it's not costing the NHS anything, all NatWest are doing is extending the health insurance offered.

Agree Lockhart but NatWest is seriously captured. IIRC they've contributed to government enquiries that are well outside their remit. Someone influential is pushing the trans issue there

My employer-paid (not NatWest) PMI covered my hysterectomy - pretty much no questions asked.

That's by the by.

"NatWest are paying for staff to have transgender surgery!! I bet they don't pay for women to have essential treatment" is a rather a different kettle of fish than "NatWest extend package of private health insurance offered to staff".

The adversarial starting point and misrepresentation of what has actually happened helps no-one.

As a general rule, employer-paid PMI tends to cover the same conditions for which treatment would be available on the NHS, but without the long waiting times and sometimes with more options for treatment method. To get breast reduction surgery on the NHS, it needs to be deemed medically necessary rather than cosmetic - I haven't looked into it but I imagine the same would be so for PMI.

My understanding is that the NHS does offer transgender 'interventions' so it would be logical for employer-paid PMI to mirror that. The rights and wrongs of those interventions being offered on the NHS is really a separate question.

And there is a public interest given the taxpayer funded bailout.

The rights and wrongs of those interventions being offered on the NHS is really a separate question.

Agreed, that is another issue entirely! But this is why I can't get angry about this. It's not on the NHS, they're not offering special treatment (in this instance) to staff who ID as trans, they're not taking something away from women, they're adults (since I presume NatWest does not employ children)... I don't care if adults have privately funded transgender treatment through insurance and I don't care if employers offer private health insurance. As it happens I have Bupa care through my employer but I have no idea if transgender treatment would be covered!