Mick Hartley

The gender cult in the NHS just refuses to die. From the Telegraph:

The NHS is routinely calling mothers “birthing people” in defiance of Wes Streeting’s anti-woke crackdown.

Dozens of midwifery jobs advertised by the health service use the gender-neutral term instead of “mother”.

Critics said the phrase was “disgusting” and erased women’s role in childbirth to accommodate a “tiny minority” of transgender men who become pregnant…

In February, Mr Streeting called for an end to “misguided” diversity, equality and inclusion practices in the NHS as he urged the health service to focus on patient outcomes instead of “ideological hobby horses”.

The terms “birthing people” and “pregnant people” have become widely used in recent years because transgender men who give birth are said to not like being called “mothers”.

So women must be insulted like this to accommodate the delicate sensibilities of the tiny number who like to pretend they're men – even as they give birth

The Sunday Telegraph has identified dozens of job advertisements for midwifery roles where NHS trusts refer to mothers as “birthing people”.

They include Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, which is recruiting for a midwife to provide “intra partum and postnatal care to birthing people” for between £37k and £44k pa.

Other adverts from Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust say the successful candidate will be required to provide “evidence-based care” for the “birthing people” who use their services.

Elsewhere, an advert from the Whittington Hospital NHS Trust for a labour ward coordinator says the successful candidate would be required to meet “birthing people’s individual needs”.

The revelations prompted the Department of Health to slap down the NHS, saying the language would confuse patients and was a “waste of time”.

“The NHS needs to be laser-focused on the things that matter to patients,” a spokesman said.

“Women should not look forward to childbirth in fear and look back on it with trauma.

“That is the urgent problem in maternity services the NHS ought to be solving.

“Unnecessarily erasing the word ‘mothers’ from NHS documents is a waste of time and confusing for patients.”

At least, encouragingly, the Department of Health is on the right side here.

Helen Joyce, director of advocacy of human rights charity Sex Matters, said the term “birthing people” was “dehumanising”.

“It’s not just ludicrous to see jobs for midwives referring to ‘birthing people’ instead of ‘mothers’: it’s disgusting,” she said.