Quietly withdrawn
The rewrite team has been allowed entry at last.
NHS chiefs have been forced to rip up their pro-trans guidance after it was rendered illegal by the Supreme Court ruling.
The NHS Confederation, which represents trusts, has quietly withdrawn guidance telling hospitals that they should allow trans people to use their chosen toilets and changing rooms.
Guidance they should never have issued in the first place. I still, after all this time, cannot understand how adults managed to convince themselves to be so gullible and stupid about this issue.
The group told The Telegraph it had taken the guide down from its website because it had become “dated” since the Supreme Court judgment that the word sex in the Equality Act means biological sex.
Yeah right. What they mean is, the judgment made it untenable to keep lying about what sex people were. It should of course have been untenable all along.
On Thursday night, women’s rights charities demanded that the confederation apologise for the guidance, which they claimed may have led to unfair decisions, such as the case of Darlington nurses who were disciplined for demanding single-sex facilities.
They said that rather than deleting the guidance, the confederation should actively inform all trusts that it was now null and void.
Damn right. The guidance didn’t suddenly become ridiculous, it was ridiculous all along. An apology would be appropriate.
Maya Forstater, the chief executive of Sex Matters, said: “Its guidance encouraged a hostile, humiliating and unsafe environment for NHS workers and patients. It was published with much fanfare but withdrawn by stealth.”
Nailed it.
The confederation’s now-withdrawn guidance stated: “In all types of workplaces, trans and non-binary people should be supported to use the bathrooms they feel most comfortable using. At no time is it appropriate to force staff to use the toilet associated with their assigned sex at birth against their will.”
But of course at all times it is appropriate to force those horrible people who don’t have a luxury gender to use the toilet with the other sex in it against their will. Trans people get to choose; no one else does. That’s fairness.
A spokesman for the confederation said: “We have withdrawn our guide from our website as elements of it were dated following the ruling of the Supreme Court in April and interim guidance from the EHRC.
Mmmmmmno. Not dated. Wrong. Always wrong. Wrong from the outset. Wrong then as now.
“The withdrawal of our guide does not change our explicit commitment to support our members to reduce the unacceptably high levels of bullying, abuse and discrimination at work that trans and non-binary staff and patients face.”
So the NHS continues to ignore the unacceptably high levels of bullying and abuse at work that women face.
I can’t help but notice that all of the individuals who claim to be so worried about bullying, in addition to never mentioning the bullying females face daily, also never recognize that bullying by males of gender-nonconforming males did a lot of early work leading us toward transgender ideology in the first place. If men had been accepting all along of other men who are different from what is considered “normal,” would those “others” have chosen to run into the safe and welcoming arms of “well, I’m actually a woman, so bugger off!”?
Male bullying, and the often violent enforcement of sexist stereotypes that comes with it, is never accurately identified as the leading cause of gender-related distress. It’s always those awful feminists creating the problems.
That is also true of a lot of the trans men, who want to escape bullying by men, and not only that, the designation as someone lower in society than a male. The lower pay, the ‘caring’ jobs, etc. If a woman is not the nurturing sort, does that mean she is really a man? Not by my standards, but by trans standards, that is probably enough to gain you the trans or non-binary credentials.
Women also police other women on dress and femininity, and while it can cause not only discomfort, but outright distress, among the bullied women, and may lead to women changing behaviors to ‘fit in’, I think the dynamic is different, partially because the violence component is different. There are many episodes of violence by women against women, but it is less frequent, and usually less severe, than men inflict on women and on each other. My experience is, to be sure, only my experience, but it doesn’t seem like women are as likely to become gender dysphoric from sex-policing by women as they are by sex-policing by men – especially since the sex-policing by men not only mocks their appearance as unfeminine, but also has throughout history kept them out of jobs they wanted to do, and to some extent still does.
Man-face may be the western equivalent of the burka.
@ #2
Exactly. Thank you for finishing my thought and for stating it well.
I know we’re mostly ‘preaching to the choir’ here in the B&W comments section, but I find it helpful to see how others think about and phrase a particular idea.
That’s a good point about non-conforming males. It’s one that doesn’t get made enough.
Non-conforming males also face bullying and other social punishment from females. While female bullying generally doesn’t involve physical violence, it is nonetheless emotionally and psychologically effective, as any girl bullied by her peers will attest.
I can attest to that. Usually it is the same girls that bully the non-conforming boys. I’m not sure, though, why every discussion of women needs to include ‘yes, but also the men’. Everyone here knows that; we’ve discussed that in many threads, and it isn’t really all that helpful. I will grant that some girls punish non-conforming boys in a number of ways. I will grant that this is effective and distressing. Ultimately, though, the best way to deal with this – whether the bullied/bully is male/female – is to get rid of the social expectations and say ‘girls are girls, boys are boys, and if the girls wear pants and the boys like kittens, who the hell cares?’
In the end, it is all about a particularly toxic version of masculinity, coupled with a mindless, sexualized femininity, that is the real problem.
I think everyone here understands that, but how do we get it across to the trans? It’s okay if they want to dress the way they like, but that doesn’t make them a ‘girl’ and doesn’t get them a free pass into the ladies room.