A quite extraordinary statement from the statutory body that regulates nurses and midwives, the Nursing and Midwifery Council, @nmcnews, in their submission to the @Commonswomequ GRA inquiry:

https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/16949/html/

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There must be serious gaps in training if they think that babies are 'assigned' a sex at birth as if it was in some way an arbitrary or capricious choice made by many their registrants and which they might get wrong.

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Equating 'gender identity' with sex is meaningless and relies on demeaning, regressive stereotypical notions of societal roles for the two sexes; concepts that a regulator of nurses should not wish to be associated with.

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When I looked at their recruitment equalities monitoring a year ago, I found them using much the same language:

https://twitter.com/zeno001/status/1218600529003208704

Quite astonishing.

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When I looked at their recruitment equalities monitoring a year ago, I found them using much the same language: https://twitter.com/zeno001/status/1218600529003208704Quite astonishing.4/4
When I looked at their recruitment equalities monitoring a year ago, I found them using much the same language: https://twitter.com/zeno001/status/1218600529003208704Quite astonishing.4/4
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