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Despite alarming policies adopted by liberal elites running Britian’s National Health Services (NHS), many doctors and nurses feel like they can no longer make comments about sex and gender.
Rejecting the NHS’s policies on transgenderism, nurses were reportedly fired for arguing against the placement of biological males in single-sex female wards.
“I have met several nurses who have lost their jobs because of this”, Baroness Nicholson told The Telegraph. “A doctor says that he no longer feels able to make comments about sex and gender. He recently delivered a baby, he said it was a girl and he was accused of transphobia.”
Critics say the promotion of transgender issues not only risks ruining the privacy rights of women, but it also has a devastating impact on healthcare workers who are afraid to speak out.
Lord Syed Kamall, who is the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), confirmed that NHS England is currently reviewing the policy of housing transgender people in same-sex wards.
The department hopes “to ensure that it remains focused on privacy, safety and dignity for all patients.”
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In testimony before the Lords during detailed scrutiny of the Health and Care Bill, the Tory peer said that healthcare workers have been “inhibited” from speaking over concerns of being fired or being denounced as “bigots” for arguing for female rights.
One such nurse relayed to the Tory peer that “trans rights supersede all other rights and concerns” at the NHS, therefore making it “impossible” to fulfil her mission to “advocate for the vulnerable”.
Baroness Nicholson argued that the NHS policy of sorting patients “according to their presentation: the way they dress, and the name and pronouns they currently use” rather than by biological sex has “diminished significantly” the safety and privacy rights of female patients.
“Transgenderism, and I speak as a woman, has undermined that provision with the 2019 NHS guidance authorising self-selection of patient gender on arrival in hospitals, something neither enshrined in law nor backed by public demand.
“Yet Parliament and our ministers have consistently declared that women both need and should have privacy, dignity and safety in their most vulnerable situations such as when sick or pregnant.”
She also told the House of Lords of a case in which a 14-year-old girl turned down a cervical smear because the nurse who was to perform the test was “very clearly a natal male”.
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