When will this crap stop?

[klondike]

British Nurses and Midwives Face Potential Ban from Medicine for 'Misgendering' Patients

Nurses and midwives face the prospect of being banned from practising medicine in the United Kingdom if they "misgender" a patient, new guidance from a regulator has suggested.

Guidelines from the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) regulator, which has the power to suspend or even remove nurses and midwives from its registry, effectively prohibiting them from working in the UK, has warned that "misgendering" a patient could lead to sanctions.

While it did not specifically lay out the penalty for failing to use a patient's so-called preferred pronouns, the regulator stated according to the Daily Mail: "Persistently and deliberately misgendering a trans person is contrary to the requirements of the code to treat people with kindness and respect.

"Although gender-critical beliefs are protected under the Equality Act, this does not mean that those with gender-critical beliefs can 'misgender' trans persons with impunity."

The updated guidance from the regulator has drawn concerns about the potential risks posed to patients by adhering to leftist gender theories, with Stella O'Malley the director of the medical campaign group Genspect saying: "Professionals, especially those working in healthcare where mis-sexing a person could have catastrophic implications, need to have the right to clarify and even highlight a person's sex.

"For example, if a transman presents with stomach aches, the nurse might need to ascertain whether the transman, who is biologically female, could be pregnant," she said, adding: "While a person's gender identity might be important for some people's sense of self, their biological sex can be a matter of life and death within a hospital setting."

O'Malley went on to criticise the regulator for asserting that it is a "belief" that people can change their sex, saying: "This is akin to saying it is a 'belief' that water is wet... no person in the history of the world has changed sex – many have changed their gender identity but no one has changed sex."

I seriously doubt that many midwives will be performing their duties with any trans patients.

I'm getting very tired with that bloody rainbow flag. 

[Diasi]

I seriously doubt that many midwives will be performing their duties with any trans patients.

I'm getting very tired with that bloody rainbow flag.

No, but they'll probably perform their duties with a female who insists she's male & that's where the minefield is for the midwives.

[1955vintage]

What a load of cobblers.

[Raven]

What a load of cobblers.

It sure is, am sick to the back teeth of all this silliness. 

[Alex]

SO ! if the midwife is in the middle of a delivery with complications and the baby is in distress AND she happens to call the mother 'she' then she can possibly be prohibited from working in the UK ?  Borrocks !  who is running the NMC I'd really like to know  ?

[JBR]

Absolutely ridiculous.

Unless someone in authority, someone with common sense, puts a stop to this nonsense there are going to be either many convictions for using the wrong word, or many people will refuse to work in such an environment.
I certainly would.
Alternatively, I could just refuse to call an obvious man a woman (or vice versa) and wait until I am taken to court or threatened with the sack.  In either situation, I would expect my defence to insist on proof that I have knowingly used the wrong pronouns.
I certainly expect to see much disruption in the future.

[dextrous63]

Has Paula Vennells landed herself a new job?  This has the hallmark of her brand of competence on it.

[Michael Rolls]

totally and utterly stupid