It seems that diversity and inclusion in the NHS only work in certain directions. That direction is firmly weighted in the trans direction.
If you are a black nurse, a Christian, a collection of white nurses or just one nurse, you need to accept that you are very far down the diversity and inclusion ladder when it comes to men who say they are women. So beware.
The story that cemented this for me, after many others, was the story of the black nurse looking after a man with urology issues. He had a catheter that needed to be taken out and because he was a man with a penis, a doctor was needed to do this.
The patient was a prisoner, a child sex offender, in fact, who had posed as a teenage girl online to entice young boys into sexual acts. He had been transported to hospital from a male prison. But he identified as a woman and called himself by a female name. This is where the problem started.
Jennifer, a nurse of 12 years, was on shift when the disorder began. With the patient becoming increasingly agitated, she was called to take charge of the situation and telephoned the required doctor to come to the ward and remove the catheter. She had to explain that it was a man (a doctor would not be required for a female catheter removal) and so referred to the patient as “Mr”.
This sparked the most violent of responses from the patient who called her the ‘N-word” repeatedly. She apologised and offered to call him by his chosen female forename but this wasn’t good enough. As she left his room, he told her he wanted her licence number and would report her.
Since then, she has been isolated, demonised and prevented from taking on extra shifts, which have damaged her financially. She was investigated and disciplined and has been labelled a potential risk to the public and given a final warning by the trust. She is now being investigated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) over her fitness to practise because she ‘referred to a patient in a manner inconsistent with their gender identity’.
Perhaps it would be reasonable to think this is an isolated case and there is more to it than appears. I wish it were so but sadly it speaks to a patternof behaviour within the NHS now which extends from one end of the country to the other.
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There is the ongoing case of Sandie Peggie, a nurse of 35 years suspended after complaining about a trans medic using her female changing room. She was put under a disciplinary investigation for a year by bosses at Victoria Hospital, in Kirkcaldy, Fife, after she objected to sharing the facility with Dr Beth Upton. It is now at an employment tribunal, and she is forced to address the male doctor, who now identifies as female, as she/her in court, whilst her entire career is at threat.
Then there is the group of five nurses in Darlington who are having to take their employer to court for sex discrimination and sexual harassment. Again, they objected to sharing their changing room with a male nurse who identifies as a woman and calls himself Rose.
The NHS Trust in both cases has sided with the male who wants to be female, has ostracised long-standing nurses who really are female, has put them at risk by refusing to respect the safety of their female-only spaces and has cited ‘inclusivity policy’ in their defence.
It really is bizarre isn’t it? This famous ‘inclusivity’ that the trusts hide behind and use to wield their power to destroy the careers of nurses that we so dearly need, is only inclusive for the men who are wanna-be women. In actual fact, for the women these policies are the opposite of inclusive. The women find themselves excluded from female-only spaces whilst the man carries on using them, excluded from the usual protection of their employer and ultimately excluded from the career they trained so hard for and loved.
In Jennifer’s case, had any other patient demographic called her the N word, the full force of the NHS would have fallen lock, stock and barrel behind her in support. The patient would have been branded a racist and would have faced strict future engagement rules for further care. But not in any of these cases. As soon as the word Trans is part of the equation, right and proper behaviour leaves the room and madness, gaslighting and abuse of its own staff takes over.
That is how captured the NHS is. Every single part of the senior management of the NHS has been subjected to the delusional training that is DEI that forces people to buy into the lie that men can actually change their sex and become women and when they announce that they have done this (notwithstanding having a penis) it is what one can consider the trump card. It beats everything else, especially actual women.
Even when referring to the male patient as a woman would jeopardise their care and so safety, it doesn’t matter, pronouns are god-like, blaspheme if you dare.
Every day I wake up and wonder when this madness will end. Every day I hope that Wes Streeting will step in and tell each and every one of these trusts that men pretending to be women cannot share women-only spaces, that male patients who pretend that they are women cannot call black staff the ‘N-word’ without sanction, that men who pretend to be women cannot be placed on women only wards and that the right to believe that there are only two sexes and that you cannot leap from one to the other is a protected characteristic and must not, therefore, be demonised. Do you think he will?
