Some Sanity on the Gender Agenda in the UK By Richard Miller (London)
As hard as it might be to believe, in the UK, which is as woke as it is broke, economically and morally, transgender women are to be banned from being treated in female wards. If someone is complaining of say cervical cancer, but does not have a cervix to start with, that creates a medical resource shortage for women who have a real cervix, who have real cervical cancer getting vital treatment. Woke, according to the health secretary, is sidelining women’s rights. Now watch the feathers fly, everywhere.
“Transgender women will be banned from being treated in female hospital wards in England, the health secretary has announced today.
Steve Barclay told the Tory Party conference of plans to push back against what he calls ‘wokery’ in the NHS.
He said ‘wokery’ has led to women’s rights being increasingly sidelined.
Mr Barclay told the conference in Manchester he had already undertaken similar work, pointing to an intervention on ‘unacceptable changes to the NHS website that erased women from conditions such as cervical cancer’, and stopping the NHS from making staff declare their pronouns.
He went on: ‘That is why today I am going further, by announcing that we will change the NHS constitution following a consultation later this year to make sure we respect the privacy, dignity and safety of all patients, recognise the importance of different biological needs and protect the rights of women.’
The Health Secretary will open a consultation on changes to the NHS constitution aimed at bringing forward the changes.
Outside the conference hall, Mr Barclay added: ‘We need a commonsense approach to sex and equality issues in the NHS – that is why today I am announcing proposals for clearer rights for patients.
‘And I can today confirm that sex-specific language has now been fully restored to online health advice pages about cervical and ovarian cancer and the menopause. It is vital that women’s voices are heard in the NHS and the privacy, dignity and safety of all patients are protected.’
Home Secretary Suella Braverman gave her backing to the plans, telling broadcasters on a visit to Bolton: ‘Trans women have no place in women’s wards or indeed any safe space relating to biological women.
‘And the Health Secretary is absolutely right to clarify and make it clear that biological men should not have treatments in the same wards and in the same safe spaces as biological women.
‘This is about protecting women’s dignity, and women’s safety and women’s privacy. And that’s why I’m incredibly supportive and I welcome the announcement today by the Health Secretary.’
Elsewhere in his speech, Mr Barclay confirmed reports that he would announce the creation of three new medical schools at the University of Worcester, the University of Chester and Brunel University in Uxbridge, west London.”
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