Colonialism is to blame for imposing the male-female divide on society, NHS staff are being told in official hospital policies.
Health trust documents obtained by the Daily Mail also state that adults who take hormone therapy are going through puberty, and that men who identify as women can be lesbians.
The contentious claims have added to calls for an urgent review of all NHS guidance on gender issues.
An investigation by the Mail has already revealed that people who only occasionally present as women are allowed into female-only wards, midwives are being warned they can harm trans parents by describing them as mothers, and 999 operators have been told to ask for emergency callers’ pronouns rather than risk misgendering them.
Tory MP Miriam Cates, who is a former science teacher, said: ‘It is a travesty that so many NHS trusts are now engaged in divisive political activism and are promoting extremist political views about gender theory – views that have no basis in reality and are a threat to the safety of women.
‘It is indefensible for our National Health Service to deny the reality of biological sex, and it undermines public trust in the whole medical establishment.
‘Those within the NHS who are pushing this destructive agenda are failing in their duty of care and must be held to account.’
Hello Steve Barclay? Are you listening?
Analysis by this newspaper of dozens of NHS hospital trust policies found that in addition to advice on how to handle staff transitioning and care for transgender patients, they commonly state controversial gender theories as fact.
Many avoid saying that humans are born male or female, and instead assert that doctors simply ‘assign’ a sex to babies.
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust describes sex as ‘assigned by medical practitioners at birth based on observed physical characteristics’.
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust says: ‘When we are born a medical professional attributes our sex based on outward appearance. But that does not always mean our gender aligns with it.’
It adds: ‘Being transgender is not a choice.’
Guidance published internally by both Sheffield and University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust states: ‘Globally, many cultures recognise more than two genders.
‘As with sexuality, in the West binary categories dominate (male/female, gay/straight).
‘In modern-era Western history, these have been imposed on a human experience which is not binary through colonial incursion, when the values of one culture were imposed on another culture.’
No evidence is provided for this assertion.
Because there isn't any, outside of Colonial Studies academics.
Mick Hartley 
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