Bank of England: ‘any gender’ can be pregnant

Talk about getting your priorities right. As ministers battle to get inflation down from the double digit highs of earlier this year, it seems not all at the Bank of England are preoccupied with this struggle. For it has today been revealed that staff at Britain’s central bank – whose main job is to keep inflation at just two per cent – have been spending their time drawing up new, right-on pregnancy guidelines. The main takeaway? People of any gender identity can become pregnant, apparently.

In its submission last year to Stonewall (who else?), the Bank of England boasted about how its new ‘family leave’ policy, introduced in June 2021, included the phrase ‘birthing parent’ to mean mother. The Bank’s parental bereavement leave policy meanwhile ‘talks about parents without specifying gender’. The term was instead taken to mean ‘the parent who is/was pregnant with the child but includes persons of any and all gender identities.’