I'm going to labour the point on this further as picked up some more on X around this, specifically on women advocating their boundaries re consent & asking for female only care/support.
Lucy Hunter Blackburn from MBM is commenting here:
https://x.com/lucyhunterb/status/1888990321461141787?s=46
"A doctor working in the NHS, getting legal support on the NHS, believes that any female member of staff who has a particular difficulty sharing a changing room due to something in her personal history shouldn’t expect a properly managed single sex changing room, but/
should instead have to disclose her personal history to management and have special arrangements made. I’m thinking the woman I know who only in her late 40s disclosed with great difficulty has sexual abuse as a child./
And the elderly relative of a friend who was terrified of men and I think only a small number of her family knew why. I could be thinking too about the statistics about the proportion of women who have something in their history./
And I wonder if what is held to be appropriate for staff who have particular sensitivity around men is true for patients. And what about women who don’t have a specific incident of sexual assault but have just been made wary by a lifetime of near misses?/
*Or women from particular faiths.
But I have to hope that no NHS board would really follow that sort of logic, because it would be the behaviour of a disturbingly psychopathic organisation.
Anyway, it seems to be getting dark rather early in Scotland today.*"
In response, someone else highlights they've had to dispose prior assaults to justify her request for a female only staffed mammogram service.
https://x.com/munkihanger/status/1889035963105751279?s=46
"I had to disclose my CSA and DV to be guaranteed a woman for my mammogram."
https://x.com/munkihanger/status/1889037562138030437?s=46
"I had to get PALS involved as the screening unit said I was being unreasonable for even asking for a woman."
I've been involved in this 'fight' one way or another since 2016 and the one thing that focused my mind on all of this was female only provision on health care. I've an elderly mum, and a teen daughter, as well as being a menopausal woman in my 50s. Healthcare is the one thing that spans across demographics & that was the sharp end I've been involved in. This 'development' is one anticipated but honestly, I never thought they'd actually go this far. But it's clear this is the position adopted, across what should be female only provision, without any kind of acknowledgment this is absolutely unacceptable for many of us.
I'm actually fucking raging at this. And Upton is one of the reasons this is happening. They'd rather pander to the likes of Upton's delusions, than the needs of women/girls.