An extraordinary intervention
Let’s read this, shall we?
NHS Fife is setting out its position on a number of matters related to the ongoing employment tribunal and provide clarity around some of the misinformation circulating around the tribunal case that NHS Fife is defending.
NHS Fife is so furious it can’t even get a coherent sentence out. It means “in order to provide clarity” or similar.
The legal case brought against NHS Fife began after it commenced an internal investigation following allegations made by a member of its staff. The claimant’s case is being supported by Sex Matters, whose chief executive officer and co-founder was called as a witness by the claimant in the earlier hearing. The claimant’s barrister is also chair of Sex Matters. Other members of the organisation’s ‘advisory group’ have provided commentary to the media on a number of occasions where no reference is made to their direct involvement in the organisation. Sex Matters have been very active, making numerous statements which it would appear are aimed at steering public opinion in a way that NHS Fife as a public body clearly cannot.
Aw, how sad. Poor NHS Fife. On the other hand, NHS Fife is the party that is hell-bent on punishing a female nurse for objecting to a man in her changing room, so my sympathy turns out to be quite limited.
We value the contribution of every member of staff and the diversity that strengthens our teams, services, and care.
Blah blah blah and yet you don’t protect every female member of staff from being leered at by hulking men in the female changing rooms.
More interventions now by police: NHS Fife has said police had to be called after staff faced threats of “physical harm and sexual violence”, as the health board sought to defend its actions around an employment tribunal.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nhs-fife-says-staff-have-faced-violent-threats-as-it-defends-tribunal-actions/ar-AA1IRPq5
This article ends with these paragraphs, so unclear if physical violence threatened or verbal/defamation:
Judge Alexander Kemp said: “No participant whether witness, representative or participant should be intimidated and if that has happened its a matter for the criminal courts and Police Scotland.
“Obviously matters of defamation are not within our jurisdiction.”
A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “We have received information and it is being assessed.”
And [midway down] another article: https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/nhs-fife-threats-to-staff/
[technical question: how do you highlight quotations from sources on this blog?]
Wes just use “blockquote” and its negation between angle brackets.
Bullshit. NHS Fife has been acting against its staff (by failing to provide female staff with single sex facilities) in a way that is illegal. News flash: advocacy groups get to advocate. That’s what they do. Their support for your staff is perfectly compatible with their reason for being. It’s organizations like yours that demonstrate the very need for groups like Sex Matters, because you act like sex doesn’t matter, even when it’s supposed to. There is nothing underhanded or nefarious about anything that they’ve done, despite your insinuations. Speaking of underhanded and nefarious, NHS Fife’s adherence to and enforcement of “Stonewall Law” was advocacy with menaces. You have sided with a man against your female nurses’ interests, safety and dignity. You have punished your own staff for resisting your unlawful support of trans ideology. How is that, along with the associated communications re trans “rights” not “aimed at steering public opinion”?
Not that you’ve been entirely truthful with the public. You wanted to avoid publicity for what you’ve done by holding this tribunal in secret, keeping your illegal actions and policy postions as a fait accomplit, using intiidation and bullying for internal discipline, but presenting a faux-progressive, monolithic, One Big Happy Rainbow Lanyard Family facade to the outside world. Well, the inner workings of the secret sausage factory are now on public display, with a key player showing her complete capture by going so far as to claim that she is uncertain about her own sex. I’ll bet she’d never said, or even thought that for a moment, until testifying before this tribunal. But put on the spot like this, she goes all in, even if it makes her look like a fool and a liar. It’s been a long time since I’ve heard of such a pathetic, contemptible demonstration of ideological subservience. Being on the supposed “Right Side of History” sure can make people do a lot of stupid, evil shit, and let them feel proud and happy doing it.
yet one more intervention called for:
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25324561.ewing-swinney-must-show-leadership-peggie-tribunal
archived at https://archive.is/r4mdm
YNNB? @3: Thanks for that eloquent take-down of the portion that jumped out at me, too. “How dare these uppity women talk in an attempt to convince people they are right?” Note that they edged away from accusing Sex Matters of, say, lying–since they know damned well that such an accusation would immediately result in a libel suit. So they are left with nothing but the accusation that women talking is a bad thing.
Except NHSFife, being a public body, can shape workplace culture by firing whoever is politically different to what they want, and can shape workplace law by attempting to reach legal findings to create precedent; and of course there is the simple fact that it can communicate directly with the public with social media and public statements.
Fucking liars.