Bring Back The Word 'Woman' Nhs Told

[naomi24]

//The word "woman" must be used on NHS websites for cancer and pregnancy information, more than 1,000 doctors, nurses and health workers have told the service…. A letter drawn up by the Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender, which is made up of NHS staff, said dropping the use of the word was disrespectful… Specifically, the NHS must use women's words for women's bodies and women's health problems... NHS.UK healthcare messaging shows a lack of concern for women, is disrespectful and insults women.//

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/nhs-word-woman-guidance/

Hear hear … but not only is airbrushing 'women' out disrespectful and insulting - giving the impression that people other than women (dare I say men?) are also affected by health problems and conditions that can apply only to women is just plain stupid. Why aren't they saying that too?

[Old_Geezer]

We need to bring back sanity and ban the madness in all it's forms.

[Gromit]

Getting as obsessed as gully. Same subject every day zzz.

[naomi24]

Sleep tight.

[ClareTG0ld]

I'd dearly love to know what "ban the madness" means exactly.

[naomi24]

I think it means stop referring to men as women - and I agree.

[bobbinwales]

Maybe making things less clear for 99% of people just to appease 1%.?? Maybe you got more accurate figures.

[ClareTG0ld]

I seriously doubt that "ban the madness in all it's [sic] forms" was meant to refer to just the narrow question of language in a medical setting.

[naomi24]

What do you think it means then?

[ToraToraTora]

Bring back common sense too while they are at it!

[Old_Geezer]

It means get rid of all the woke, PC, and similar insanities that have infected society in recent decades. This includes confusion over sex and gender (which outside of professional psychological jargon, are synonyms). Get back to clear thinking and proper respect for folk.

[Old_Geezer]

But surely that was obvious.

[Untitled]

a few days ago a speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference in the USA called for "transgenderism" to be "eradicated from public life entirely"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/cpac-transgenderism-daily-wire-michael-knowles-b2294252.html

last summer Helen Joyce - a "gender critical" activist and author - called for a reduction in the number of transgender people even if they are happily transitioned... she added that "every one of them is a huge problem to a sane world ."

janice raymond in her 1979 book "the Transsexual Empire" called for transgender people to be "morally mandated out of existence" and argued for severe limitations on access to healthcare for trans people...

that's what old_geezer means when he says "ban the madness" and it's what the anti-trans backlash is all about... they want trans people to be eliminated because they are "problems"... because they find them disgusting... in essence because they hate them

[bobbinwales]

I doubt very much that's what old geezer meant and I think you do to really...but maybe he'll suprise me

[naomi24]

Untitled, // that's what old_geezer means when he says "ban the madness" //

Is it? Don't you think you should ask him - politely - before making such a disgusting allegation?

[Untitled]

nope I'm confident that I'm right

[naomi24]

I think you should. Try it.

[ClareTG0ld]

Ban how? "Get rid of" how? If transgender people exist, then by necessity there also must exist a (polite and respectful!) way to refer to them. And, even if you personally aren't obliged to use it, then it's clearly free for others to do so. This talk of "ban[ning]" and "get[ting] rid of" is therefore clearly pointless as long as transgender people exist. OG must surely recognise that.

Never mind that "banning" anything to do with language is a blatant violation of freedom of speech and self-expression.

[Untitled]

we live in a world where there are regular and public calls for trans people to be eradicated and in that context saying "ban the madness" in regard to "gender confusion" has pretty obvious connotations... it's a euphemism

[naomi24]

Clare/Untitled, instead of jumping to conclusions why don't you ask OG what he means? That would be the sensible thing to do.

[ClareTG0ld]

I did ask. The answer remains vague, with no real definition of "get[ting] rid of", etc.

As long as transgender people exist, then people will refer to them using language that OG apparently wishes to ban. It should be obvious, especially to someone who often tries to champion free speech, why trying to "ban" that is problematic.