MIDWIVES ARE OUT BUT LLAMAS ARE IN – NHS NEEDS A CHECK-UP

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Will the gender ideologues ever give it a rest with their efforts to erase women?

The latest is a call for the NHS to ban the term ‘midwife’ because it is not ‘inclusive’ for transgender patients.

In a new research paper, Dr John Peddleton, a senior lecturer in midwifery from the University of Northampton, and Dr Sally Pezaro, an academic midwife from Coventry University, accuse the word midwife of ‘upholding the patriarchy’ and ‘subordinating all who give birth’.

In what the authors call their “new Utopian vision”, they propose the mouthful ‘lead perinatal practitioner’ as a replacement for the time-honoured term.

In barely penetrable jargon, their paper argues that: “A move away from the title of ‘Midwife’ to ‘Lead Perinatal Practitioner’ would be trailblazing in reducing inequalities through the deconstruction of harmful patriarchal constructs and decolonisation.”

The article is stuffed with the usual gender nonsense, including using ‘birthing person’ and ‘pregnant body’ instead of mother.

Sadly, the NHS is now saturated with this kind of gobbledegook. Medical professionals routinely use terms like ‘chest feeding’ instead of breast-feeding and ‘cervix-haver’ instead of woman.

“Maternity services are under enough pressure without ideological nonsense being foisted on them”, says women’s rights campaigner Helen Joyce. We couldn’t agree more.

When bad ideas become embedded, it takes determined action to root them out. But what hope can we have in the current Government when a Health Minister is on record for saying that there shouldn’t be single-sex toilets at all and that we must “take someone seriously” when they identify as a llama?

But at C4M we do not despair. We know the fightback is on! The importance of biological sex is increasingly being asserted in public discourse. That’s good news for women, and it’s good news for real marriage.

So never forget that your voice matters. Local Health Board meetings are open to the public, and attending them is a powerful way to advocate for marriage and family values. To participate, visit your local Health Board’s website to find the schedule, location and agenda for upcoming meetings. Make your presence count – join the conversation today.