NHS Lothian Children’s Services has received ‘Charter Status’ from the activist group LGBT Youth Scotland for its commitment to “proactively” promote LGBT ideology.
It comes after a prayer room at Edinburgh’s “Sick Kids” hospital was redecorated with flags and other multi-coloured signs to promote different ‘sexualities and genders’ during ‘Pride’ month.
A clinician at the hospital said the space had been turned into a “social issues battlefield” amounting to the “blatant sexualisation of children”.
‘Display of activism’
The hospital’s chaplaincy service is run by Maxwell Reay, a woman who has lived as if a man for 25 years.
Reay, a minister of Augustine United Church in Edinburgh, said: “We are a denomination that believes that being transgender is a gift from God. A truly wonderful gift that needs to be shared and not hidden.”
One family of a terminally ill toddler said they felt unable to use the room as it had become a “display of activism”.
Virtue-signalling
Last month, an art installation ‘in celebration of diversity’ at the Princess Royal University Hospital in Farnborough, London, was branded a waste of money.
A source close to Health Secretary Steve Barclay described the hospital’s mural of the “Intersex-Inclusive Pride flag” as “virtue signalling”.
Speaking to The Daily Telegraph, the Government source said taxpayers want funds “used for cutting waiting lists and caring for patients, not wasted on virtue-signalling vanity projects”.
Dr Louise Irvine of the Clinical Advisory Group on Sex and Gender said the move could easily be “interpreted as the NHS supporting irreversible medical and surgical treatments for body modification”.
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