Telegraph: NHS trans plans will make maternity care ‘the next Tavistock’, midwives warn

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Wearily familiar. I'd be surprised that maternity care is somewhere where this is happening expect I'm not. At the core of this ideology is rank misogyny, so it makes absolute sense to see this happening in this location.

It's good though, to finally see that the profession concerned (midwives in this case) are fighting back. Dr David Bell is also quoted in the piece, pulls no punches.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/01/11/nhs-trans-plans-will-make-maternity-care-next-tavistock-midwives/

"Midwives are in revolt over new NHS transgender training plans which “could be a repeat of the Tavistock scandall_”.
NHS England is recruiting a group to run “gender inclusive trainingg_” across 40 NHS maternity services, such as trans-inclusive language and pronouns.
The sessions with up to £100,000 taxpayer funding will also include online resources, information posters and “best practice examples of how to care for trans and non-binary birthing people”.
The supplier, which will be decided this month, must have “a track record in trans awareness training” and will deliver classes for midwives, maternity support workers, nurses and others.
But 300 doctors, nurses, midwives, psychologists and other health workers have now written to NHS England demanding the plan be placed on “immediate hold” as it has “no evidence base”.
The letter to Lizzie Streeter, NHS England’s “national LGBT programme manager”, on Jan 9, which has been signed by 2,000 people in total, warns: “A scandal similar to Tavistockk_ could be repeated in NHS maternity services due to poor research and the influence of advocacy organisations.”
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust’s sole child gender clinic for England is being shut down by the NHSS_, following years of criticism over activist interference."

I’m so relieved to read that they’ve backtracked. Very much agree with those upthread who said it’s all about making money.

Let’s hope this nonsense is at the beginning of the end.

When you think of the recently exposed maternity scandals, it’s grossly offensive to spend money in this way. I would hope any transman’s first priority is a safe delivery.

also: I don't get how being pregnant, which is biologically a function that women only have, matches up with "living as a man"

Yes, just another batshit contradiction of TRA. Apparently so 'triggered' by the words woman, women, mother and breastfeeding that they can't even catch a glimpse of them in anything relating to female reproduction, yet no problem using their female body to have sex, get pregnant, give birth or breastfeed.

Nonsense. If they are mature enough to have a child they should be mature enough to stop selfishly trying to control and remove other women's language.
All they have to do is tell their own midwife and have it in their notes whatever the fuck their pronouns are.

If you're "living as a man" but doing the only thing a woman can do - have a baby - then it looks like fraud. There should be powers to rescind the GRC.

And that's before you tackle the ethics behind putting a natal female on PBs and CSHs, then doing a bilateral mastectomy, THEN reversing down the hormones path so that the natal female can get pregnant.