NMC UPDATE

[Whiskywinter]

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGe2yN7jW/

sex can change apparently

I suspect they'll be deluged with reports. I also suspect the response will be that she's entitled to her opinion. The NMC Hearings Management might be more interested. If she gains notoriety due to her bigoted views against a protected group then that will make things difficult for them.

What was she up before a panel for? I’ve tried googling and it just brings up cases where she was on the panel, not anything about her being in trouble herself.

Presumably it was a relatively minor fitness to practice issue. If it had been dishonesty or anything serious I can't imagine she would able to sit as a panelist. It's 10 years ago so the information wouldn't be online now (unless it was a news story). The determination would have been published (unless it was related to her health) online at the time and remained (I think) for the duration of the order or sanction. Here's their guidance on publication...

https://www.nmc.org.uk/globalassets/sitedocuments/ftp_information/publication-guidance.pdf

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGe2WkAuw/

Thanks Whiskywinter

The guidance has an interesting section on gender recognition. Seems the NMC are using "sex assigned at birth" terminology. Honestly, does the regulator of midwives truly believe that sex is assigned at birth?

She said in a comment it was related to her health.

Oh ok so that would not have been a public determination.

Wow! What a responsibility! If sex is assigned at birth it must be the midwives in charge of assigning it, right?

Absolute batshittery.

It absolutely is bonkers, isn't it.

I must have met about 20 different midwives in my recent pregnancy (a lot of turnover and illness in my midwife team) and the first question they tended to ask, as small talk or to put me at ease, was "do you know what you're having" (ie sex of baby).

In fact, so did friends/acquaintances. Literally I'd turn up visibly pregnant to a cafe and the batista would ask how far along I am and do I know what I'm having.

Literally no one thinks the sex is unidentifiable until birth. No one. It's just another in the long list of "things we pretend we don't obviously know" in this ideology

Not only is it crazy to suggest birth is assigned at birth, it is dangerous too. There are numerous sex-linked conditions that can run in families that everyone should be aware of before birth.

Nobody actually literally believes sex is assigned at birth. That's why they're all happy asking pregnant women "do you know if you're having a boy or a girl". Just like they don't believe men (actual men) can be mothers, or that people can actually change sex, or that women can be rapists, or that women just need to try harder not to be outrun/outcycled/outweightlifted by men.

No one actually believes it. No one. They just think it's kinder to pretend they believe it, and kind to insist others pretend.

With her finger wagging and the glasses, the eye rolls and exaggerated "smile" I find her a very scary character.
A cross between one of the cast of The Witches and Edna Everage.

She’d make a great Delores Umbridge too. Sitting in judgement of others. The power is going to her head.

Anyone thinking of reporting that dangerous lunatic, download the videos you want to report so you have got a record. She might well go private or delete them. If you don’t know how, just search for “Download TikTok video”.

WinX downloader works for tiktok.

Just when I was thinking of returning to nursing. I can't deal with this shit. We all know you can't change sex. I won't be gaslighted by my professional body.

I think this is supposed to be reassuring. However, I'd need to know the standard of evidence for "intentional mis-gendering" in case it is too close to 'perceived' in non-crime hate incidents etc. (NB: how often do people vow outside formal settings and ceremonies these days?)

Nurses and midwives could face being struck off for intentionally mis-gendering patients.
Guidelines from the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) regulator tells medics how they can 'express their beliefs appropriately' and when they run the risk of a sanction.
Under its latest update, it includes one example where a midwife who believes the Government is destroying the health service shares their opinion at a dinner.
Regulators would only take action if said midwife vowed to treat patients differently based on their political view

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12931079/Nurses-midwives-face-struck-mis-gendering-patients.html

However, I'd need to know the standard of evidence for "intentional mis-gendering"

its whatever Delores Umbridge says it is when she’s on your panel.

Thanks for posting the DM piece, the quote at the end (apart from the DSD bit) was spot on.

I'm really irritated by those glasses. Ostentatiously 'look at me' specs. Possibly she thinks they look nice.

I wonder if Gary Larson is still drawing cartoons?

Alas, no gif!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-67732916

Looks like there's a bit of a crisis in midwifery.

Related news...

Rachel Meade has won against her regulator SWE.
The NMC will need to watch out!

https://www.colekhan.co.uk/news/uvzuy6kcrtb5lwg59pxbs44tqbeuj2

Oh, wow, brilliant!!!

Simultaneously relieved for her and profoundly irritated that
women's rights | freedom of thought and speech
need to be expensively asserted whereas it seems to have cost nothing to remove them.