Scottish NHS bans Mum and Dad

[bill]

PC brigade going full steam ahead......................................................................................



EDINBURGH, Scotland, (LifeSiteNews.com) - Nurses and other health care professionals should avoid using the terms ‘Mum’ and ‘Dad’ to refer to family relationships since the terms could be offensive to homosexual couples with children, a new directive published by Scotland’s National Health Service recommends.

The booklet calls for a “zero-tolerance policy to discriminatory language” among Scotland’s health care system. Included in discriminatory language is the use of terms that assume a traditional family structure of mother, father and children, according to the NHS directive.

“LGBT [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered] people can and do have children, sexual orientation or gender identity has nothing to do with good parenting or good child care,” the booklet states.

“Individual circumstances lead to varied family structures and parenting arrangements. It is important to be aware of this. When talking to children, consider using ‘parents‘, ‘carers’ or ‘guardians’ rather than ‘mother’ or ‘father‘.

Along the same lines, the directive points out, use of the terms ‘husband’, ‘wife’ and ‘marriage’ is not acceptable since such terms exclude lesbian, gay and bisexual people. Instead, health care workers should use the terms ‘partners’ and ‘next of kin’. Since ‘next of kin’ is often understood to mean nearest blood relative, however, the booklet recommends that it may be preferable to use ‘partner, close friend or close relative’ to avoid confusion.

“This allows the patient to identify and choose who is important to them.”

“Posters with positive images of same-sex couples, alongside similar material depicting opposite-sex couples, should be displayed in all areas e.g. waiting areas, hospital wards.”

In order to better ensure the comfort and security of LGBT people in the health care environment, the NHS calls for sexual identity “monitoring forms” to be included in all registration procedures for both staff and patients. The booklet recommends five reply options to the question of sexual orientation, including ‘Lesbian‘, ‘Gay‘, ‘Bisexual‘, ‘Heterosexual‘, and ‘Other‘. Sections recording gender should be changed to have three reply options, ‘Male‘, ‘Female‘, or ‘Other, “where people can define their own gender.”

[Friend of Dorothy]

All I can say is i'm glad I don't live in Edinburgh. Gay people, like straight people are quite able to determine their identity within a family unit and will probably continue to do so without the help of this document/policy. It's this sort of crazy pc mania that adds to the very descrimination that it claims to eradicate. I remember an article from a US publication several years ago, that suggested that people with Downs syndrome should be refered to as having Up syndrome as this sounded more positive. I despair

[bill]

The booklet calls for a “zero-tolerance policy to discriminatory language” among Scotland’s health care system. Included in discriminatory language is the use of terms that assume a traditional family structure of mother, father and children, according to the NHS directive.

So the next time we hear a child crying for his Mammy we can expect a nurse to be telling him off.I suppose it could even lead to the child being banned from the hospital for using discriminatory language.

[bill]

The booklet recommends five reply options to the question of sexual orientation, including ‘Lesbian‘, ‘Gay‘, ‘Bisexual‘, ‘Heterosexual‘, and ‘Other‘.

Keeping within the bounds of decency,could someone enlighten me to what the other might be?

[Annie]

Tranny's!

[bill]

Not many trannies in the town I would nae have thought,as the reception is too poor.

I had a wee wan way back in the sixties,used to try and get radio Caroline on it as I delivered groceries on my message bike.

[bill]

Did'nt take long to get of topic

[Friend of Dorothy]

I know of 2 Transgendered people in Campbeltown. As for Transvestites, which I'm sure is what Annie was refering, there are probably a whole lot more. They tend to be straight men with a taste for ladies clothing. I always wondered why it was so secretive down at the Masons

[Annie]

Keich!!!!!!

[bill]

Aye I'm not really intae these new trans vest tights,always prefered stockings and suspenders

[ionnsaigh]

Mae mammy an Dady wir shemales

[Friend of Dorothy]

Keich!!!!!!

I know you have been away a while Annie, but things do move on. Boys and Girls no longer enter by seperate doors or sit on opposite sides of the school dances. Yes deviance hit Campbeltown some time ago. Oh by the way......is that a German word??

[Friend of Dorothy]

Well Bill that's good to hear. I take it you have a well turned ankle.

[Annie]

Ach, the deviance was always there, but well hidden behind closed doors and twitching lace curtains!!!

Whisper, whisper, whisper!

Who geez a ceich anyway!!!!!!!!!

[bill]

Well F.o.D. it's not the first time I've had a whistle in the knobbly knees contest