NHS England axes ‘anti-women’ LGBT badge scheme
from The Christian Institute:
NHS England has ditched its taxpayer-funded LGBT scheme which pushed hospitals to erase sex-specific language.
Since 2021, the NHS Rainbow Badge scheme has rated hospitals gold, silver or bronze based on their promotion of gender ideology. A coalition of activist groups which led the scheme, including Stonewall and the LGBT Foundation, awarded points for calling pregnant women “clients” and asking for patients’ ‘preferred pronouns’.
But NHS England has now closed the scheme across 77 trusts due to a “lack of funding”, after the Department of Health and Social Care decided it was no longer “value for money”.
‘Huge step’
Helen Joyce, Director of Advocacy for women’s group Sex Matters, commented: “The end of the NHS Rainbow Badge scheme is a huge step towards rooting transactivism out of our public institutions.
“The news should be a huge relief to NHS staff and patients, since the Rainbow Badge harmed women’s rights by prioritising trans identities over sex-based rights.”
Caroline Ffiske of Conservatives for Women said the scheme “promoted an ideology that erases women, our language, our safety, our dignity. Gender ideology should be nowhere near the NHS”.
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