And from the NHS, surprisingly /sarc.
Steve Barclay last night ordered an urgent investigation into new guidelines that tell NHS staff to treat all patients as gender-neutral.
They don’t need investigating, they need scrapping – along with the lunatics who came up with them.
The Health Secretary demanded answers after learning taxpayers had funded the guide to ‘inclusive communication’.
As one of those taxpayers, I think we should be compensated – directly from the pockets of the perps.
It instructs doctors and nurses not to use phrases such as ‘Mr’ and ‘Mrs’ or ‘he’ and ‘she’ until a patient has confirmed their gender identity.
If a medical professional is unable to determine what sex I am, I’ll be asking for someone who is competent in at the very least, basic biology. I’m pretty sure that everyone apart from the insane trans activists will react similarly.
And medics are told to consider that this may have changed since the individual’s last appointment – even if they see them regularly.
Sex doesn’t change. I’m aware that there are narcissists like that fruit loop Sam Smith that play this game (fisherthem, FFS!). However, the vast majority of men entering a doctor’s surgery would expect to be referred to as Mr and women as Miss/Mrs/Ms – or even sir or madam.
The 16-page document features a foreword by Dr Michael Brady, national advisor for LGBT health at NHS England, who describes it as a ‘must read’ for all health and social care professionals.
‘Must bin’ more like.
It has been produced by researchers who received a £164,964 government grant to study how clinicians could improve their communication with LGBT patients and present their findings as ‘evidence-based guidance’ for them to follow.
And people claim that the NHS is underfunded. The term ‘evidence based’ has taken on a whole new identity since I last looked.
Suggestions include: ‘Can I ask if you have any important people in your life?… And would you mind sharing your sexual orientation?’ Another says: ‘So I refer to you correctly, can I ask what your pronouns are?’
To which the answers are: ‘Mind your own business’, ‘absolutely not’ and ‘I’m sure you have sufficient observational skills to work that one out.’
This is the state to which the ‘envy of the world’ is reduced.
Being deliberately obtuse, I’d probably say “Felix”. They’d be disappointed when they find out that he’s a black and white pussy cat though.
Fire them all. Set lions on them. Burn the buildings. Salt the earth.
Of all the issues of patient care the ‘offense’ of using the wrong pronoun is way down the list. Sort out the waiting lists, beef up A&E, address staffing levels, clear out the dead wood, take down the hectoring messages about violence to staff. Then you can worry about being polite.
When I read those signs about violence to staff, my first thought is – “and what did the staff do or say to prompt the violence”. I’ve been working as a contractor in 3 hospitals in this area, and believe me, half of them (office rather than surgical staff) deserve the violence. Nasty little control nazis, all of them.
Those signs you see in any establishment urging people to ‘respect our staff’ are a key sign that the staff have, in the past, disrespected the customers on too many occasions….
“So I refer to you correctly, can I ask what your pronouns are?”
My response to that would be, “me, myself and I”.
And if I were asked what my gender is, I would reply that I don’t have a gender. I have a sex, and it is male, which should be obvious to anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together.
Perhaps if the NHS scrapped all this bollocks and the non-jobs such as diversity managers (or whatever the hell they are) then they’d be able to give nurses a pay rise.
Those non jobs do provide handy places to put people who tick diversity boxes but have no useful abilities. Granted they are basically commissars, but it’s better than some potential alternatives.
Since we seem to take (semi) qualified doctors and nurses from third world countries I propose we export DIE experts in a reciprocal arrangement
They address me by my Christian name without being invited. I don’t like it, but the problem has been largely resolved by the impossibility of seeing one anyway.
The NHS is a political organisation that occasionally provides health care.
It must be treated as such.
We must tell politicians what we, the public regard it as. We cannot continue with the NHS as it is. A politician may use the NHS because it looks good, but you can bet your bottom dollar they won’t have spent hours on the phone trying to make appointments. If Keir Starmer phones for an ambulance he won’t wait 14 hours for one. If he needs his appendix out it’ll be done the next day, not in 6 months.
But no politician will get rid of the socialist spawn and replace it with healthcare institutions.