British Health Service is accused of 'trying to erase women' as dozens of trusts sign up to Rainbow Badge scheme that marks down hospitals for using words like 'mother'

Dozens of hospitals have signed up to be graded by trans rights charities who tell them to stop using the terms 'mother' and 'woman'.

Angry MPs have called for ministers to step in after 77 trusts joined the NHS Rainbow Badge Scheme, which rewards them for dropping 'gendered language' from policies, forms and signs.

The trusts gain points for referring to maternity patients as 'clients' and calling cervical screening clinics 'colposcopy' instead of women's health.

A former Cabinet minister last night accused the NHS of being 'willing to erase women so they can please radical ideologically-driven campaign groups'.

The scheme is commissioned by NHS England but run by vocal trans rights lobbying groups including Stonewall and the LGBT Foundation, who carry out the grading.

They also tell hospitals to introduce gender-neutral toilets and get medics to ask patients their pronouns, leading to fears that the lobby groups are dictating NHS policy.

Staff who just want to treat patients and so speak out against the NHS's focus on gender identity are branded homophobic and transphobic, while facing 'tougher consequences' from bosses.

The revelations will deepen concerns about gender ideology becoming embedded in the health service, after a Mail investigation found that even patients who only temporarily identify as women are allowed into female-only wards.

And it comes even though health bodies have been warned by ministers to rethink their close ties with the likes of Stonewall.

A source close to Health Secretary Steve Barclay told the Mail last night: 'Any scheme which does not recognise the role of women and biological sex in the NHS directly contradicts ministerial steers and raises serious questions of propriety.

'The Secretary of State has been very clear that women should be called women and freedom of speech upheld. He expects that guidance to be followed.'

Former Cabinet minister Ranil Jayawardena said: 'It's extraordinary to learn that the NHS are prioritising pronouns over patient care.

'Surely the simple biology that women are mothers is not lost on today's NHS management?

'It seems that the NHS is willing to erase women so they can please radical ideologically-driven campaign groups. Ministers must step in now.'

The NHS Rainbow Badge scheme was initially devised as a way for staff to show they supported LGBT+ people, by wearing a small enamel pin badge bearing the NHS logo and the pride rainbow.

But it has been turned by NHS England into an 'assessment and accreditation model' to grade trusts according to their inclusivity.

NHS England agreed a £220,000 deal whereby leading charities would grade health organisations on their inclusion work – even though some of them have highly contentious views on gender ideology.

Stonewall supports people being allowed to 'self-identify' as the opposite sex while the LGBT Foundation helped write a recent guide for health bosses that said patients have no right to know if they are being treated by transgender medics.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12451335/NHS-accused-trying-erase-women-trusts-Rainbow-Badge-scheme-hospitals.html

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