Julie Bindel Julie Bindel

Why does the NHS care what Stonewall thinks of it?

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One might reasonably assume that NHS employees would consider biological sex to be extremely important. After all, there are huge differences in male and female bodies and their functions. The type of illnesses we are prone to can be affected by whether a patient is male or female. Women and men also have different reproductive organs and, as a result, fertility issues may vary depending on a patient’s sex. But this knowledge of male and female physiology can sometimes appear to matter less than being patted on the head by Stonewall, the gay rights charity turned transactivist cult.

How much more harm can Stonewall do before it finally gets the comeuppance it deserves?

So desperate were the big guns at NHS England to be included in Stonewall’s Top 100 Employers that, in its recent application, it stated its menopause policy is ‘LGBT inclusive’ and had been improved to support ‘trans and non-binary employees’.

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