The National Health Service is struggling under increasing patient demand to provide quick appointments, A&E support or hospital beds – yet its managers have still found the time to issue a memo to staff struggling to cope with, er, the Supreme Court’s trans ruling. As if its staff didn’t have more pressing problems to deal with…
As reported by Guido Fawkes, the NHS letter sent out by the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust first bemoans the judgment from the highest court in the land before announcing a string ‘extraordinary sessions’ for their 25,000-strong workforce. The one hour-long drop-ins will provide staff with help on how to power through with work in the face of both the ruling and the Equality and Human Rights Commission guidance that has followed it. The note fumes:
It was not the role of the UKSC to define what is, or what it means to be a ‘woman’.
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