Transgender language is being instituted at two U.K. hospitals in the NHS healthcare system that now require midwives to cease using the words "breastfeeding," “breastmilk” and "father," and change how they refer to mothers all under the banner of inclusion.
Cork s 96FM By Jamie Glass Image from Getty. Staff at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust have been told to avoid using phrases such as mothers breastfeeding and maternal as part of a new trans-friendly language policy.
Midwives at a hospital trust have been told to use substitute terms such as birthing parents and chestfeeding as part of a gender inclusive language policy.
Additionally, instead of saying breastmilk , they can choose from human milk or breast/chestmilk or milk from the feeding mother or parent .
Reported in The Mirror, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust is the first in the country to formally implement a gender-inclusive language policy for its maternity services department - which will now be known as perinatal services .
Sport is enriched by soul-stirring anthems
A French supporter before a rugby match against New Zealand at Eden Park in 2018
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SIR – Nicholas Young (Letters, February 10) dislikes the singing of national songs at sporting fixtures. What a killjoy he is.
Surely the one place where unashamed nationalism is acceptable is the sports arena. Attending rugby union internationals as an England supporter, my soul is always stirred not only by the national anthem but also by the proud defiance of Flower of Scotland and Land of My Fathers or the unifying Ireland’s Call.
Then there is the blood and thunder of La Marseillaise at the Stade de France. And, as a lover of military music, I hope one day to attend a live performance of Il Canto degli Italiani in Rome.
The Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust in England announced on Feb. 8 that they were instructing nurses and midwives to use “gender inclusive language” in their maternity wards, with such terms as chest-feeding instead of breast-feeding, birthing parent instead of mother, and human milk instead of breast milk.