No, an NHS trust is not erasing vaginas in guidance for trans and non-binary parents. (Getty) Anti-trans panic has spread like wildfire across the internet after the Daily Mail dug up a year-old NHS trust policy allowing pregnant trans patients to choose how they refer to their own reproductive anatomy. More than a year ago,
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Hundreds of members of the LGBT+ community marched through Dundee as part of Trans Pride Scotland 2019. (Photo by Stewart Kirby/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Trans healthcare in Scotland will get a desperately needed financial boost of £2 million in “crisis funding”, the Scottish government has announced. The money for trans healthcare comes as part
Sajid Javid has asked for a “fresh advice” on trans patient policy after a transphobic report about trans sex offenders in The Telegraph. (WIktor Szymanowicz/NurPhoto via Getty Images) LGBT+ groups have accused new health secretary Sajid Javid of “sexualising young trans people” after he ordered a review of NHS policy regarding trans patients. Javid called
Captain Tom Moore came out as an LGBT+ ally, to the delight of his fans. (Twitter/ captaintommoore) Captain Tom Moore, the 100-year-old veteran who raised more that £30 million for the NHS, has come out as a proud LGBT+ ally. The war veteran began fundraising on 8 April, 2020, hoping to raise £1,000 for NHS
Paul Hollywood’s suggestion that rainbow bagels “represent the NHS” led to a number of complaints, the broadcast regulator Ofcom has confirmed. The Great British Bake Off judge was roundly mocked on social media for claiming that the rainbow colours commonly associated with LGBT+ Pride actually symbolised the UK’s National Health Service. “Paul, why rainbow coloured
Rosie Duffield insisted “only women have a cervix” on Twitter. (Nicola Tree/Getty Images) Labour’s Rosie Duffield has slammed accusations that she’s “transphobic” as a “tedious Communist pile on” amid a heated online row about who can get cervical cancer. The controversy began late last night, when Duffield – who last week in parliament suggested a
The UK’s Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has denied rumours that it is behind a campaign of bot Twitter accounts imitating NHS staff “posting for herd mentality and support of the government”. The speculation traces back to John O’Connell, the founder and editor of Far Right Watch, which “reports on bigotry and corruption
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s trans-inclusive policy was raised in Scottish parliament (Envato Elements) An NHS board in Scotland has urged its staff to treat patients who complain about trans people in the same way as they would racists. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s gender reassignment policy review advises staff on what they should do
Blood samples. (Artyom Geodakyan/Getty) Amid a troubling scarcity of donors, four out of 10 new blood donors in England are men, leading LGBT+ activists to let out a strained sigh considering the gay men are still banned from donating. According to the BBC, just 41 per cent of new blood donors were men. The sparse
New research reveals many examples of prejudice from healthcare staff towards female LGBT+ patients (Pexels) A trans woman who woke up on a men’s hospital ward after surgery is among the many case studies included in a new report on healthcare failings for sexual minority women. “I had knee surgery and woke up on a