NEWS ARTICLE: ‘Woman is a dirty word’: The trans culture of fear plaguing the NHS

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‘Woman is a dirty word’: The trans culture of fear plaguing the NHS
Despite the Supreme Court’s ruling on biological sex, a ‘repressive regime’ threatens to punish staff who challenge gender policies

Written by Janet Murray. It is a very long article, so using a gift link for the rest of it: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/56b0b0616c09a527

Thank you for the girt link. Janet is doing some fantastic work uncovering what's happening at the moment.

If women won't speak up there's never going to any change.

And if things never change, women will never feel safe in speaking up.

Luckily, I do believe things are changing, albeit very slowly. Need to keep moving forward. It's very tiring, though.

Could be worse. Could be Australia. 😡

Thanks for posting this. Just paging @KnottyAuty in case you haven't seen it.

Even in Ireland, which has similar gender laws as Australia, I've noticed that it's much more acceptable now to have discussions about women that clearly refer to biological women.

A couple of random examples -
I heard somebody on a sports programme saying that sports footwear should take into account that 'men's and women's bodies are different', and on another occasion that sports coaches must start factoring menstrual cycles into women's training programmes.

In the not-so-distant past, there would have been anguished corrections of the hate-fuelled suggestion that there are men, and there are women, and they are identifiably biologically distinct, and some kind of blabbering about inclusivity.
But these straightforward statements about sportswomen were just allowed to stand.

I've also noticed that a regular health and wellness radio programme has features on women's health which are very clearly about biological women's health.

I don't listen to it but it's often on in the background, and the word 'vulva' coming from the radio stopped me in my tracks a couple of weeks ago and made me pay close attention!
It was unequivocally about real women and real vulvas with not even a hint of apology or squirming to include 'our trans sisters' or anything like that.

It's as if the whole trans/genderID/TWAW thing never really took root in the minds of the general public, and biological realism is reasserting itself in everyday life.
It's like a coat of paint that was badly applied, and is wearing off in patches now.

The NHS seems to be the perfect illustration of just how much this movement is about the wealthy and powerful telling the lower orders to shut up and take their clothes off. It’s the management and their lackeys silencing dissenting voices with threats to their livelihood if they don’t toe the line. And some of those managers are extremely wealthy. The Times ran a story recently on how NHS England is meant to be scrapped, with its powers merged with the DoH but this is proving tricky because of the extremely high salaries at NHS England creating too much wage disparity. It’s basically the money and power of the lanyard-wearers forcing front-line workers into extremely risky and distressing situations.

I was referred recently to a private hospital for an NHS procedure. The hospital sent me a medical questionnaire to complete that had some fields pre populated presumably from my NHS record. ‘Current Gender’ was populated with ‘female’ whilst ‘sex at birth’ was blank. I of course scored through the former and completed the latter.