Mick Hartley

The Telegraph reports on NHS gender capture:

NHS trusts are "gaslighting" patients over the inclusion of transgender patients on single-sex wards, a whistle-blower nurse has warned.

Dr Sinead Helyar said that in at least one trust if patients questioned why there was a male-bodied person on a female-only ward, medics had been told to "reiterate … that there are no men present”.

Medics told to lie. That's inspiring. 

Official NHS trust policy documents also compare patients who ask for single-sex spaces to racists and label them "transphobes", "offenders" and "perpetrators", she said.

Staff who raise safeguarding concerns may be threatened with disciplinary action or even criminal charges, according to Dr Helyar, who warned that the NHS is influenced by controversial LGBT charity Stonewall.

She said that in one mental health trust, a male-born patient who identified as a woman had sexually assaulted patients on a female-only ward on two separate admissions, despite staff raising concerns. 

The comments come after an investigation by The Telegraph found that guidance from trusts included that sex offenders who self-identified as women could be placed on female-only wards.

Of course. The needs and demands of male sex offenders are far more important than women's rights and women's safety.

Speaking in a personal capacity to a panel organised by parliamentary campaign group Children and Women First at the Conservative Party conference, Dr Helyar said that NHS policy is “formulated and enacted to the detriment of women”. 

She said that many trusts, often under the influence of Stonewall, had developed transgender accommodation policies that “have failed to consider the rights and needs of women” and instead of equal treatment “prioritise male transgender patients in the very spaces set out for women”. 

Nurses expected to enact these policies have found that they “undermine our ability to advocate for uphold the rights of women patients, safeguard women and importantly, treat them with kindness, honesty and integrity as we are professionally obliged to do”.

She identified a number of documents which, she says, equated female patients questioning the policies with racists and a policy from Greater Glasgow and Clyde which tells nurses to “re-iterate that the ward is indeed female only and that there are no men present”.

"This is the NHS gaslighting women patients,” she said. “In other policies, women patients who ask for wards to be single-sex are described variously as transphobic service users, offenders, perpetrators or those who should be given trans education sessions to improve their attitudes.” 

See also The NHS has fallen, at The Glinner Update:

The NHS Rainbow Badge Scheme is a Stonewall-devised taxpayer-funded initiative in which ‘NHS staff who have pledged to provide support and signposting to LGBT+ people’ are rewarded with a badge to wear.

This may sound like infantilising nonsense, which of course it is, but many, including doctors, find the scheme sinister, particularly the pressure that comes with it to participate. One GP said an identical scheme in Scotland would make more sense if it was run by the Stasi, while Lord Moonie, the Labour peer, called it “a scandalous waste of scarce resources at a time when every penny should be going towards recovery from the Covid-19 epidemic”.

Nonetheless, a few days ago NHS Rainbow Badge revealed that NHS England has provided further funding for the scheme, so that another 40 NHS trusts can ‘undertake the NHS Rainbow Badge assessment model’….

Coming to an NHS trust near you.