Get rid of them altogether
There are no women – women don’t exist – it’s all been a misunderstanding. There are people, and there are men, and there are trans women – but there are no women.
The word “woman” could be erased from specialist NHS clinics dealing with female health issues under proposed new transgender inclusivity rules.
That should improve health care for women (for what?) out of all recognition.
A report proposing new NHS treatment guidelines in Scotland suggests “a general move away from gendered healthcare” and warns that trans people are put off attending services if they are targeted at a certain sex.
Are women put off if services are not targeted at a specific sex? Could such a policy mislead or confuse women? If so would that matter? Do women matter at all?
It states that trans men may feel “really uncomfortable” if they have to attend a “women’s health clinic” for services such as contraception or cancer screening programmes.
And we can’t have that, so we’ll pretend that women just don’t exist, and refer to them as owners of body parts.
The Scottish NHS has previously been criticised for omitting references to women from public health campaigns and instead using terms such as “people who menstruate”.
A Scottish Government-backed advice leaflet designed to teach young people about periods referred to “those of us that have both our ovaries and a womb”.
Which is already confusing. Does it mean a womb and both ovaries? Or a womb and one or two ovaries? Who knows? They introduce a pointless ambiguity in the rush to be inclooosive.
The report states: “Systems within NHS Scotland need to allow for increasing gender identities for patients, specifically including non-binary identities. This should be done as part of a general move away from gendered healthcare.
“Transgender individuals may be uncomfortable seeking reproductive health care or contraception when the services’ ‘target audience’ is advertised in a way that is incongruent to their gender identity (eg a transman may be really uncomfortable attending “women health clinic” for a coil or for a cervical smear).”
Therefore, for the sake of that petulant narcissistic pretend-man, all women have to be concealed from NHS language. Where did all the adults go???
HEALTH CARE NEEDS TO BE SEXED! (Not gendered – it’s sex that matters in health care.) How loud must we scream for people to understand that?
Saying “women’s health care” does not exclude TiFs, because they are women. It does not exclude “non-binary” females because they are women. It only excludes men and boys. (Not girls; that’s the only group perhaps improperly excluded because ‘women’ but when I was a girl, I understood that women’s health services were for both women and soon-to-be women, i.e. girls; I suspect that is not a point of confusion for any of the people that really need the service).
I wonder how many women are unwilling to go to services advertised for ‘people who menstruate’? Or ‘people who bleed’? Those are sort of obnoxious sounding, especially for women who are uncomfortable being open and blunt about female bodily functions. Some of us don’t care about that, but a lot of women might shy away. If they just go the easy route and say “women”, only a tiny number of delusional females will be turned away by being offended.
Yes, they’re saying they’re moving away from “gendered healthcare” by accommodating people’s “gender identities.” That’s moving towards gendered healthcare.
There is no definition of “gender” which fits into a “gender identity” that removes someone from their sex. It’s a “sex identity.” That’s because we know damn well that changing the word “woman” to the word “female” would cause conniptions.
Ok, but it’s going to be really awkward changing the shibboleth “trans women are women” to “trans menstruators are menstruators! Well not literally but they are they the equivalent for all purposes!”
This kind of stupidity has real-world consequences. Healthcare is one of those things where the real sex of the individual must be correctly identified, for a wide variety of sometimes life-critical care.
I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that this is appeasement to AGP males who want to erase real women, and nothing to do with TiFs.
Do they plan to do the same with mens healthcare services at the same time or will that come later? Much later…
#5 Mike Haubruch, it isn’t that clear cut. Always removed the woman symbol from its products after a TIF complained. There are TIMs who are very invested in “women’s” health care and products because using them affirms their identity. They want to go to gynecologists, get pap smears, use tampons, etc. If those things are no longer for women, there is no validation. I do think as more women transition, or become “nonbinary,” women’s health care providers are dealing with more and more fragile women who can’t cope with hearing the word “vagina” even though they are pregnant. So there is pressure on providers adopt a new vocabulary and coddle TIF patients.