All hands on deck
Several of us have spent over a year trying to get local NHS policy to consider the needs of women, not just males who identify as women, in setting policy about wards, recommending puberty blockers and breast binding to teenage girls etc.
As a result the local NHS CCG reluctantly carried out an Equality Impact assessment, which shows the trans guidance directly harms women and girls. Even the doctors wrote in to complain. The board want to pass it anyway, but have opened a public survey for feedback by 15th December.
PLEASE help us by responding - 1000s of women will be negatively affected by this. Here's the info you need-
copy of the Equality impact assessment to read
and the survey for comments
Please share with your networks. Only six days left. Use the Mumsnet thread to find the most relevant sections of the assessment.
They have THAT impact assessment and they still want to forge on!?
There are 2 questions:
I have replied to Q1 about the EIA:
"EIA Version: V1.2, para 5: The estimate of the number of Trans people, offered by GIRES and Stonewall, is almost certainly grossly inflated. GIRES and Stonewall are campaign groups who lobby for their beneficiaries using Gov grants. The more authoritative reference is "6,000 had undergone transition". It is in fact 5597 as of end March 2020. But the next sentence is: "80% were assigned as boys at birth and 20% as girls". As the Consultant Dr Lucy Griffin points out in her letter, sex is of course DETERMINED at conception and OBSERVED at birth (or before by ultrasound). The Trans guidance should be careful not to use "gender identity" ideology, with "captured" terminology.
The correct protected characteristics have been properly evaluated in this EIA analysis, version 1.2.
But the EIA may well need to be reconsidered in the next 1-2 years as the treatment of Trans issues is undergoing rapid change in the NHS and the wider world, including in the Courts."
And Q2: comment about the document "Supporting Trans people: Best practice guidance for health and wellbeing practitioners"?
"It adopts the language of "gender identity" ideology which is not familiar to most people, and which is detrimental to the interests of women and girls, because it does not acknowledge that, in general, it is because of the characteristics of their female sex that they need protection: they are smaller, weaker and less fleet of foot. Women and girls need single-sex wards and intimate care from clinicians of the same sex when they specifically ask for this. When the Trans doc acknowledges these basic truths, then the interests of women and girls will no longer be in doubt."