Check the rules
It’s like walking through three feet of mud carrying a piano. Progress is infinitesimal.
Guidance issued by an NHS hospital would allow men identifying as women to use female changing rooms, despite warnings that the policy breaks the law.
Officials from the Royal College of Nursing wrote to senior administrators at the County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust to warn that Darlington Memorial Hospital was breaching 33-year-old workplace legislation that requires the provision of single-sex changing facilities for men and women.
And by the way they’re also acting like sadistic women-hating shits.
It has now emerged that in the last week of March officials at the royal college — the professional body for nurses in the UK — wrote to a director at the trust to complain that it was in breach of the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992.
The college pointed out that those regulations required “the provision of single-sex changing facilities for men and women — the only exception being where the provision is of single lockable rooms (not cubicles)”.
The official said that the college was flagging the statutory position “given the ongoing legal dispute and internal investigation” around the dispute over a transgender nurse at the hospital. The letter added that “the regulations also appear to have been overlooked by other organisations”, before stating that the college “expects the trust to comply with these statutory provisions and provide single-sex changing rooms without delay”.
And by “overlooked” they mean “deliberately ignored so as to make men happy at the expense of women.”
However, campaigners representing the women have said that three days after the letter was sent, the trust director re-published its “transitioning in the workplace policy”, without any changes to the guidance, which, it is claimed, said that a biological man can change in the female staff changing rooms.
Charming. “Not only will we not obey, we will make a point of announcing our insistence on treating women like floor sweepings. You’re welcome.”
Why should any company or organization have or need a “[INSERT PRIVATE, PERSONAL, HOBBY/DELUSION/FETISH] in the workplace policy”? This something best left at home, because it’s nobody else’s business, and is not something that should be forced upon co-workers. Nobody cares, and nobody should be made to care.Oversharing is a thing. Oversharing with menaces should be an illegal thing. Nobody should be obligated to believe in or participate in someone else’s religion. Far from being “marginalized,” this deliberate, official partiality and obstructionism shows that trans identified males are in fact privileged.
“Transitioning” doesn’t do anything. Does the trust also have an “auras in the workplace policy” or an “astrology in the workplace policy”? They would be as useful and make as much sense. Why does this particular fantasy receive support and enforcement (and in a hospital!)? Why does this get official sanction, but “disbelief in magic gender-essence religion” not. It’s an imposition and a threat. As has been pointed out elsewhere, this crap must be handled by legal experts, not HR’s DEI department. “Stonewall law” could cost them many tens of thousands of pounds in legal fees and damages. Maybe that will make them see sense.
So, a quick recap for readers. The order of seniority in the court system of England and Wales (apparently):
Magistrates’ court < Crown court < High court of justice < Court of appeal < Supreme court of the United Kingdom < County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
lol
@dnm
Totally incorrect! We all know that the supreme authority on the law in England and Wales is the Good Law Project. Jolyon Maugham dashing off a strongly-worded letter has the power to change everything.