The NHS, captured
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust has implemented a 'trans friendly gender-inclusive language policy'.
In a drive to stamp out 'mainstream transphobia', a range of changes have been brought in. Its maternity department has been renamed 'perinatal services', breastfeeding must now be referred to as 'chestfeeding' and any mention of the word ‘mother’ must include the words 'or birthing parent'.
The new terms will be used for documents, protocols and Trust-wide communication.
This is the same NHS Trust that branded a rape survivor a bigot because she requested that a woman carry out her breast-screening appointment.
Sussex is also the location where Rachell Dios is employed as an NHS treatment and recovery ward for women manager. This is Rachell Dios (on the right).
Stories of the NHS erasing women are not confined to Sussex.
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust recently stated that if someone is unconscious and it’s an emergency situation, staff should go through their pockets to try to ascertain their gender identity before talking to family or friends.
NHS Lanarkshire last year announced, without any warning, that its changing areas had become mixed-sex, and its new HR policy document said non-binary is a biological sex.
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde consulted with transgender groups, but not women’s groups, and then produced a document that said the assumption that women on a ward feel uncomfortable if they're next to a man who identifies as a woman is 'unfounded'. It also produced a leaflet stating that puberty blockers are 'fully reversible', which was then withdrawn but it then apologised for failing to deliver on a promise to produce a factual document about puberty blockers.
But none of these win the NHS gender woo-woo prize.
That goes to (thanks to Lily Maynard for this) these three NHS groups in Nottingham, which said, as part of their 'trans equality policy', that transsexualism occurs when a pregnant mother fails to send the same hormonal trigger to her foetus's brain that she sent to her foetus's genitals, resulting in, for example, male genitalia but a female brain.
Lily’s deep dive into this madness is here.
Thanks to Frankie for this--you can complain here bsuh.genderinclusionmidwives@nhs.net
Those 2 paragraphs from the 3 CCGs (2 xNottingham and Rushcliffe) are absolutely WRONG. The person who wrote this garbage for CCGs should be sacked!
(1) Embryology
Testosterone is produced by the foetus, not the mother. In a foetus with normal XY chromosomes (i.e. male) the Sry gene on the Y chromosome works normally to produce a burst of testosterone at the appropriate time to induce development of male genitalia. There is no Sry gene on X chromosomes, so a foetus with XX chromosomes develops to the "default" sex which is female.
(2) There are differences in the hypothalamus, but it is down (again!) to SEX not "gender".
"The hypothalamus is one area of the brain with well-documented differences between men and women. Two areas of the hypothalamus, the preoptic area and the suprachiasmatic nucleus, have clear differences in female and male brains...... Preoptic Area of the Hypothalamus: This area of the hypothalamus is involved in mating behavior. In males of several species including humans, the preoptic area is greater in volume....Suprachiasmatic Nucleus of the Hypothalamus: This area of the hypothalamus is involved with circadian rhythms and reproduction cycles. The only difference between women and men in this area is one of shape..." (From: Neuroscience for kids - https://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/heshe.html) No mention of a "developing gender" or "sex in the brain".
Who gave the author this rubbish? Mermaids? The CCGs give out funds to Hospitals. I hope they do it better than the way they study embryology.