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Single Sex Hospital Wards have always been Single Gender Wards.
We were lied to from the beginning. Purposefully.
Here's the evidence from NHS documents. https://medium.com/@anneharperwright/sex-gender-the-nhs-1e8f4e6363a6
We were lied to from the beginning. Purposefully.
Here's the evidence from NHS documents. https://medium.com/@anneharperwright/sex-gender-the-nhs-1e8f4e6363a6
When the "Abolishing Mixed Sex Wards" Policy was introduced in 2010 by the Health Secretary Andrew Lansley, it was heralded with:
"It should be more than an expectation, it should be a requirement that patients who are admitted should be admitted to single-sex accommodation”
"It should be more than an expectation, it should be a requirement that patients who are admitted should be admitted to single-sex accommodation”
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/hospitals-to-face-fines-over-mixed-sex-wards-2053767.html
Andrew Lansley said “Patients should not suffer the indignity of being cared for in mixed-sex accommodation."
I agree.
Andrew Lansley said “Patients should not suffer the indignity of being cared for in mixed-sex accommodation."
I agree.
Except.
Whilst the public were told by the Government that wards would be segregated by SEX, the NHS Information Standards Team were told to segregate wards by self-declared GENDER. Privately. Without telling people.
Whilst the public were told by the Government that wards would be segregated by SEX, the NHS Information Standards Team were told to segregate wards by self-declared GENDER. Privately. Without telling people.
The NHS team raised this in meetings with the Department of Health. They knew that it was misleading to use the word sex to describe a policy based upon gender.
The DOH purposefully and knowingly chose the word SEX.
The DOH purposefully and knowingly chose the word SEX.
Perhaps the NHS were unsure of the difference between sex and gender, hence the confusion?
No.
The NHS have published reams of documents called the "Sex and Gender Information Standards" with explicit definitions.
So that they don't accidentally kill someone, for example.
No.
The NHS have published reams of documents called the "Sex and Gender Information Standards" with explicit definitions.
So that they don't accidentally kill someone, for example.
Here's a quote from the NHS "Sex and Gender Information Standards" suite of documents:
“The term ‘Gender’ is now considered too ambiguous to be desirable or safe”
“The term ‘Gender’ is now considered too ambiguous to be desirable or safe”
Here's another quote from the NHS:
“Users may confuse the terms current gender and sex, or assume that they are synonymous”
“It is therefore desirable to use the two distinct terms ‘Sex’ and ‘Current Gender’ “
Two different fields. Designed that way.
“Users may confuse the terms current gender and sex, or assume that they are synonymous”
“It is therefore desirable to use the two distinct terms ‘Sex’ and ‘Current Gender’ “
Two different fields. Designed that way.
Here's even more NHS clarity:
“The Current Gender input controls are used to record the gender, according to how a patient currently describes themselves, whereas the Sex input controls records their phenotypic sex”
The NHS know EXACTLY the difference between sex and gender.
“The Current Gender input controls are used to record the gender, according to how a patient currently describes themselves, whereas the Sex input controls records their phenotypic sex”
The NHS know EXACTLY the difference between sex and gender.
So maybe Andrew Lansley was confused then?
Nope.
He was one of the few Tories who voted for the #GRA2004, to allow gender to supercede sex in priorities. He was aware of the difference in 2004, and he was aware when he became Health Secretary.
Nope.
He was one of the few Tories who voted for the #GRA2004, to allow gender to supercede sex in priorities. He was aware of the difference in 2004, and he was aware when he became Health Secretary.
And Andrew Lansley was aware when the NHS team brought up the fact with him that he was asking them to segregate wards by self-declared gender identity, but calling it sex. Because they DID bring that up.
And he explicitly told them it was to be represented to the public as SEX
And he explicitly told them it was to be represented to the public as SEX
So what I'd like to know, is WHY?
Why, @AndrewDLansley, didn't you tell us wards were never in fact same sex, but same gender, which is to say, often mixed sex?
Why were we misled?
The NHS knew.
You knew.
Why couldn't we know?
Why, @AndrewDLansley, didn't you tell us wards were never in fact same sex, but same gender, which is to say, often mixed sex?
Why were we misled?
The NHS knew.
You knew.
Why couldn't we know?
And now that the NHS are projecting that the numbers of people identifying as transgender have changed from the 2004 projections of 5000 people
... to the 2018 projections of TWO MILLION people
This doesn't seem like an insignificant impact to hide any more.
... to the 2018 projections of TWO MILLION people
This doesn't seem like an insignificant impact to hide any more.
