Parliament offers staff mental health support over new trans guidance

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House of Commons staff have been advised to contact trans activist groups and mental health workers for support if they are upset by official guidance protecting women’s right to single-sex spaces.

Last month, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) told businesses and public bodies to bar trans women – biological men – from female lavatories and changing facilities.

An email sent to all Commons staff called the new advice a “challenging and sensitive issue” and provided links to “external sources of support”, including a group which opposes the new guidance.

It suggests that distressed transgender people could visit a helpline run by the controversial LGBT Foundation, which says there is a “very real risk” that the EHRC’s code of practice could exclude trans women from essential services.

The email also links to a web page for trans support groups which highlights Mermaids, a charity that supports the use of puberty blockers.
It also told staff that “mental health first-aiders are available during working hours” for those with concerns.

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Mental health first aiders 😂😂😂

Where was this support for women being forced to share with males ?

WTAF?
Women actually had their rights (illegally) removed, and were told to be kind.
I personally consider the correct response to those who feel negatuvely affected by being expected to actually obey the law is 'get over it'

It suggests that distressed transgender people could visit a helpline run by the controversial LGBT Foundation, which says there is a “very real risk” that the EHRC’s code of practice could exclude trans women from essential services.

No fucks to give about transmen.

Maybe they should, what was the phrase used about raped women? Ah, yes, reframe their trauma.

Do they signpost women who are upset and feeling unsafe by the anti-female- rights rhetoric of certain MPs and the knowlege that many MPs feel openly able to sign a petition that shows blatant disregard for our existence and experiences as female people, seeks to remove our existing sex-based rights and deliberately ignores the history of marginalisation, exploitation and abuse at the hands of male people that lead to them, to Gender Critical Feminist groups?

Of course, women forgotten about again.

I suppose it's taxpayer funds paying for this handholding of the most vulnerable in society.

This is just toddler-level tantrums. They can't have what they want because of The Law, so they'll cause a lot of drama and extra work for everyone else, all to call attention to themselves and how massively unfair everything and everybody is being to meeeeeeee! If any of these people were adults, they'd just get on with it.

Honestly, do any of them any do any work?

Amazing isn't it.

Women who don't want men in their changing rooms get the sack, harassed, threatened, ostractised.

Men when the law that has bene in place for decades, get fucking mental health support.

Weird how they always knew who the actual women were all along.

You can not hate these fuckers enough.

It also raises the question as to what was (is?) the accepted behaviour in the HoC that this has caused such "trauma"?!

THIS. Very much this. It can't be said often enough. With an added helping of 'reframe your trauma' for good measure.

It's become very clear to me in recent years, but especially since the SC decision, that most men are fine with women as long as they never say no. It's the "no" that absolutely enrages them, then the thin veneer of niceness falls away and you realize that they hate women, and will use every opportunity they can get to punish us because they hate us. And the catalyst is the word no. Look at what's happened at the ponds.

It's entirely our fault that these poor men now need mental health support. And they used to call women "the weaker sex."

Just when you thought you were out of fucks.

Some things are beyond parody - before the local elections a poster said 'Of course the BBC asked a drag queen for their opinion' and I thought they were joking.
They were not. The BBC interviewed a drag queen about local politics.

The idea that people working in Parliament will be so distressed to be asked to obey the law that they need 'mental health first-aiders' is in the same 'you cannot be serious' category.

I'd say they should be sent on a course to be re-educated back into reality, but they're in the HoC and reality is way outside the Westminster Bubble.
I assume because they're being signposted to an outside organisation there's no cost to the tax payer, I'd really hate to think that pubic money is being spent on coddling the gender addled minded.

I also think this move is a tacit acknowledgement that these people are suffering from mental health issues, perhaps to such an extent that they're not capable of doing the job they're being paid from the public purse to do.

If there's one way to get the entire country to vote Reform, it's offering mental health first aiders to men who are squealing because they can't go in the ladies.

Have they tried reframing their trauma?

If only the mental health people were steeped in reality! Then all these traumatized people could be returned to sanity. The cognitive dissonance that’s causing the permanent rage would be cured and they could therefore learn to reframe their trauma and place it squarely where it belongs, which is in the forest of manufactured outrage, by the blue lagoon of deep pretence.

And, just think: if for some unfathomable reason it was women who had decided to upend society and try to get everyone to bend to our will, all it would have taken would have been one NO from a man in a position of power, and the whole thing would never even have started.

100%

Hah - the Telegraph are on it.

Just shows the type of people employed there if they need mental health counselling when told to use the toilets of their own sex.
Unbelievable - and yet more evidence of how this narcissistic luxury belief renders people incapable of functioning in the work place and possibly society as a whole, if they can't cope with following the law.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/06/04/parliament-staff-mental-health-support-trans-guidance/

Edited to add oops - this was in the OP