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Aug 30, 2022 10 tweets 7 min read Read on X
Dear NSFT,

We appreciate your apology but you have failed to understand why "people" is not inclusive nor acceptable when talking about maternity services.

We guess you know this is an issue because you have BANNED replies to your tweet & FAIL to talk about mothers & mums. >> Image
Do you think deleting the word "birthing" is enough?

Failing to talk about mums, mothers and maternal services excludes women who may have English as a second language or with special needs, and distresses some mums. It is dangerous.

You are doubling down - and not listening. Image
You have a duty to all 9 protected characteristics.

By following #Stonewall advice to erase the words, woman, mums and maternity from your patient outreach, you are failing women in 3 protected characteristics, sex, race and disability.

#discrimination Image
We told you - erasing the words women and mothers in your communications is also dehumanising and offensive.

The Secretary of State stated in June that biological sex is incredibly important and trusts should use common sense and the right language.

dailymail.co.uk/health/article…
NHS bodies should not promote any particular belief system. Your language and actions promote the highly contested ideology of gender identity. This is an ideology that seeks to destroy the rights of others.>>

#ErasingWomen #Discrimination
Your language, actions and failure to act when alerted to your errors relating to the Equality Act create a hostile environment and may prevent the safe, efficient & fair provision of services to women.

This is not necessary for patients who identify as men to be accommodated.
One of our members told your CEO and HR team for 2 years or more that @NSFTtweets has errors in its equality policies and reporting.

Stonewall is misleading you. Letter to NSFT CEO in Septe...
You corrected religion/belief, & added marital/civil partnership.

You still omit the protected characteristics of
sex
pregnancy & maternity and
gender reassignment.

@NSFTtweets, you persist in collecting data incorrectly by gender not sex.

#ErasingWomen #SexDiscrimination ImageImageImage
It's time to sort out these inaccuracies in equality law of @NSFTtweets Equality, Diversity and Inclusion strategy and policies, stop promoting gender identity ideology and start collecting data correctly.

#ErasingWomen #SexMatters ImageImageImage

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Mar 27, 2023
@NSFTtweets Thank you. This should not have taken 2 1/2 years to correct. We look forward to hearing the @NSFTtweets Board answers to our other questions at or before the Board meeting on the 6 April.
@NSFTtweets Amending the website is a first step, that acknowledges the problem.

Now the work starts.

Question 2: What steps will the @NSFTtweets Board take to correct the 2022 #Equality, #Diversity and #Inclusion Strategy & all trust communications and policies?
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Mar 13, 2023
Hey, @SportsparkUEA yr swimming pool reopens on Weds. You & UEA still haven't sent our members the policies they asked for a month ago. #FOIA

Have you found the courage to face up to the fact that letting naked men into female changing spaces discriminates against women & girls?
You said to @EDP24 that you "do not allow men to use the female changing rooms" and a "spokesman confirmed the centre does not allow men in women's changing spaces and vice versa."

But that's not true, is it, @SportsparkUEA? https://www.edp24.co.uk/new...
Since you rec'd complaints about men in female spaces, you snuck in a change of words. What on earth are "gendered" changing facilities, @SportsparkUEA?

Clear plain language is required. It's an issue of #safeguarding with 12 yr old girls changing without parental supervision. 18. Changing areas are made...
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Aug 27, 2022
@NSFTtweets - joining Stonewall has scrambled your brains.

Only women give birth.

By calling mothers "birthing people," you discriminate against women with special needs and women with English as a second language.

It is also disrespectful, dehumanising and offensive to women.
Erasure of the word “woman” is part of
a political & cultural movement delegitimising clarity about sex.

Sex matters for safety & dignity in healthcare for recording accurate information, obtaining consent for examinations & providing single-sex facilities & accommodation.
Avoiding the word woman when referring to maternity mental health and female biology, and instead using “pregnant people” is your participation in that highly contested political movement, @NSFTtweets, and is discriminatory.
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