Britain's NHS Trusts & Boards has been captured by identity zealots with PowerPoints, lanyards and zero public mandate. Here’s how you root it out with precision and purpose. No drama. Just bloodless efficiency.🧵
1. Anyone who can’t define ‘woman’ is out
If you need a seminar to explain human biology, you’re not fit to run a sandwich counter, never mind a clinical directorate. Thanks for your service. Close the laptop. Door’s on the left.
2. Stonewall is over
They had a good run. Influenced policy without being elected. Wrote the scripts. Cashed the cheques. That ends now. No more guidance. No more schemes. No more quiet capture.
3. Burn the training decks
“Cultural humility”? No. That’s not training. That’s soft enforcement. If your module tells staff that calling a man “he” might breach the law, it goes in the shredder. With a receipt.
4. Sex goes back on every form
No more guessing games. No more polite ambiguity. If someone’s in theatre at 3am, they don’t need a pronoun. They need to know what anatomy they’re dealing with. It’s called patient safety.
5. Single-sex spaces return as default
No more “local discretion.” No more “gender-sensitive solutions.” If it’s a ward, a refuge, a changing room - it’s based on sex. Anything else invites chaos. And litigation.
6. Legislate the reality (controversial, I know)
Short Bill. Single clause. “In the NHS, ‘sex’ means biological sex.” No opt-outs. No consultation marathons. Pass it, enforce it, move on.
7. HR gets a full sweep
Anyone who used workplace policies to enforce belief should be reassigned to something harmless, like traffic cones. HR is not supposed to be the moral police. That ends today.
8. Audit every capture point since 2019
Who signed off what? Who took advice from whom? If your inbox says “align with Stonewall” or “we’ve removed sex for inclusivity,” expect questions. Possibly in our Parliaments.
9. Freeze the DEI growth plan
Until this mess is cleared, no new hires, no new frameworks, no new Director of Feeling Welcomed. If it’s not directly tied to care outcomes, it stops. End of.
10. Say it publicly
“We got it wrong.” Not “lessons were learned.” Not “our journey continues.” Say it plainly: we politicised care, we ignored reality, and we’re undoing it. Starting now.
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This is going to sound boring. Websites. PDF links. “403 Forbidden”. Thrilling stuff. But it matters, because it decides whether the public can find what the government has done, or whether you have to already know where to look.
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In plain English: some Scottish public-sector websites are set up like a shop with the lights on and the door unlocked… but every aisle has a velvet rope and the staff keep asking why you’re taking notes.
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Humans can usually click around eventually. The problem is everything else - search engines, journalists, researchers, watchdogs, archivists, automated tools. The people who spot patterns. The people who notice what changed.
1/ Here’s the Scottish Government’s defence of the policy that can place men in women’s prisons.
They want it treated as normal, lawful and beyond challenge unless a woman has already suffered the consequences.
Receipts below.
2/Their opening move is cowardice dressed as procedure.
No named woman. No concrete case. Therefore no problem.
It only counts once a woman has been harmed loudly enough, in court.
3/Then they wriggle out of plain meaning.
Single-sex prisons, they say, aren’t actually a rule at all. There is no norm. No baseline. Nothing to protect unless a claim succeeds.
🪡Scotland has been governed for 18 years by people who sell virtue as a brand. The trouble is virtue needs receipts. It needs delivery. It needs records.
This thread lays out the pattern: waste, botched decisions, standards collapsing and accountability that vanishes on contact.
Twenty scandals. One culture.
BRANCHFORM
A party that wants more power must first prove it can handle basic money and basic honesty.
Instead we got years of questions about SNP finances, “ring-fenced” funds and missing clarity, then a police investigation that dragged on like a bad smell you can’t air out.
If you can’t run a party properly, you shouldn’t be trusted to run a country indefinitely.
FOI
Freedom of Information is meant to be the public’s torch. In Scotland it has too often felt like a wet blanket.
Redactions, “not held”, delays, evasions, endless process. Not once, not twice, but as a habit.
Governments that believe they are doing the right thing don’t fear their own paperwork. Governments that fear the paperwork are telling you something.
1/ @TheSNP took power in 2007.
After 18 years, Scotland is poorer, sicker, weaker and still being lectured to.
Here’s the record. 🧵
2/ 💉Drug deaths
2007: 455
2024: 1,017
They turned a national emergency into background noise. Scotland became a graveyard and they kept the slogans. thetimes.com/uk/scotland/ar…
🏥A&E 4-hour standard
2007: 96% seen within 4 hours
2025: ~69%
The NHS front door is broken. Emergency care now comes with a queue and a gamble.
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Receipts on @bphillipsonMP : a decade of trans messaging, then Supreme Court clarity, then ministerial delay. This is why nothing gets implemented.
2/19
This matters because Phillipson now controls the final step: approving the statutory EHRC code that turns law into practice. Until she acts, schools, hospitals and single-sex services are left to guess and carry the legal risk.
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29 June 2010: as a new MP, she pressed witnesses on how to stop trans people being forced to use documents in a previous gender. Early instinct: make the state adapt around gender identity. publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cm…
THREAD: How the Peggie Tribunal Neutralised the For Women Scotland Judgment
1/ The most revealing part of the Peggie judgment is how the Tribunal handled the @ForWomenScot Supreme Court ruling. If you want to understand the institutional resistance women are facing, you start here.
2/ The Tribunal accepts the core holding of FWS without hesitation:
👌“Woman” in the Equality Act means biological female
👌“Biological sex” means sex as recorded at birth
This applies wherever the Act uses those terms
👌They repeat this plainly. No ambiguity. FWS is binding. ✔️
3/ So far, so sane.
But then comes the manoeuvre.
The Tribunal walls off FWS by declaring that it belongs only to Part 3 of the Equality Act (services), while Peggie’s case falls under Part 5 (employment).
The two parts, the Tribunal insists, are “mutually exclusive.”