Great Ormond Street Hospital is being pushed to enforce gender-neutral language amid claims there are ‘over 150 genders’.
According to documents seen by The Times, transgender lobby group Global Butterflies spoke to staff on radical gender ideology in 2022. The session, which was reportedly optional to attend, told medics they should “know the fake issues” such as “de-transition, rest rooms, puberty blockers”.
The hospital is set to become one part of two regional hubs once the controversial Tavistock clinic, which was found to be unsafe, is closed. It will operate under interim guidance informed by findings from the Cass Review on the Gender Identity Development Service’s clinical practice.
‘Unsafe’
Global Butterflies guidance claimed that “people can self-identify themselves in over 150 ways and increasing” and promoted the discredited ‘Genderbread Person‘ graphic, which claims there are an infinite number of gender identity “options” and that sex ‘exists on a continuum’.
A “suggested resources” sheet described the scandal-hit group Mermaids as “a great UK charity”, while another document advised staff to drop sex-specific language such as “ladies” and “gents”.
In London’s Royal Free Hospital, a pro-LGBT staff group pushed medics to avoid asking gender-confused patients “inappropriate questions” such as “what is your name?”. It also claimed that wearing a “LGBTQ+ Ally” badge would show that “the wearer is a safe person for LGBTQ+ people to speak to about who they are and how they feel”.
In Policy Exchange’s Briefing Note on such schemes, Lottie Moore and Dr Sean Phillips warned that the badge could set “a damaging precedent in creating a divide between staff who could be deemed ‘safe’/unsafe in providing care for LGBTQ+ patients”.
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