Hundreds of doctors and midwives have signed a letter urging the NHS to scrap a £100,000 training programme to encourage use of terms including ‘chestfeeding’ and ‘human milk’.It should be 'hundreds of thousands', but hey! 'More joy in heaven..', and all that...
The Maternity Gender Inclusion Programme is to be rolled out nationwide with a focus on improving maternity care for pregnant transgender patients.Or as we would say, 'women with mental health issues that make them believe they are really men'.
Following a pilot last year at the University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust, the NHS is looking to roll out the training to at least 40 NHS maternity services. Rebranding its maternity department as ‘perinatal services’, it claimed ‘gender identity can be a source of oppression and health inequality’.
If by 'health inequality' they mean that men they allow themselves to call women will never bear children', then they'd better take that up with human evolution.
One midwife, who asked to remain anonymous for fear over her job, said colleagues were very concerned by the proposal – which was based on research that lacked independent evaluation or assessment on how it could impact non-trans patients and other disadvantaged groups.
She said: ‘To give £100,000 on the basis of this really rather kind of shoddy piece of work appears to us to be not based on improving outcomes for mothers and babies, but based on driving an ideological agenda.’
Yes, of course it is. The very fact that this midwife feels she can't use her real name shows that pretty clearly, doesn't it?
An NHS spokesman said: ‘The NHS has paused this programme while we look into its scope and so that it is based on the latest evidence.’
Translation: "We would have got away with it if it wasn't for you meddling kids!"
Spending £100,000 on this rubbish is a disgraceful waste of money. They could (almost) employ a Head of Lived Experiences for that sum. Priorities, priorities, NHS.
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