NHS diversity training teaches doctors about ‘gender unicorns’

NHS doctors are being taught about “gender unicorns” and other nonbinary identities, leaked training has revealed.

Dozens of health service staff attended a session about gender diversity last week, delivered by Devon Partnership NHS Trust to another trust and leaked to The Sunday Telegraph.

The two-hour session displayed a diagram of a “gender unicorn” with sliding scales of male, female and other identities, alongside spectrums of gender expression, sex assigned at birth and physical and emotional attraction.

Later in the class, medics were shown 11 examples of gender expressions, including non-binary, agender, neutrois, demigender, polygender, androgyne and femme-butch.

Attendees were left in visible disbelief when the NHS gender clinic worker leading the session introduced another identity – “genderf---” – which they explained was “when people don’t give a f--- about gender”.

Another PowerPoint slide mentioned “Terf” – a trans exclusionary radical feminist, considered a slur for those critical of trans activism – with the authors JK Rowling and Germaine Greer mentioned by the trainer as examples of this. Doctors were told about “kinks” and the “LGBTQ umbrella”, with BDSM – bondage, dominance, submission and masochism – also mentioned as a community linked closely to trans. One slide urged medics to “affirm” gender identities in order to get the trust of trans service-users.

The training met a defiant response, with one medic in attendance saying it “opened my eyes to how ridiculous this whole thing is” and suggested “capture” by activists.

“It seemed that they were almost an apostate for the trans movement and they were very proud of the fact they had 3,800 people on the (gender clinic) waiting list,” the NHS staff member, who wished to remain anonymous, told The Telegraph.

“They were almost upset that there is no licensing for hormones for gender purposes, whereas to most rational people working in the NHS, and the public, we think, shouldn’t our healthcare pounds be spent on evidence-based treatment and not creating waiting lists for self-interested groups who are using treatments with no evidence base whatsoever? When they talked about genderf---, people in the audience were smirking, they felt uncomfortable, it was almost Alan Partridge-esque. Why did we need to be exposed to that?”

Devon Partnership NHS Trust declined to comment.

‘Healthcare money should be spent on evidence-based care – not creating waiting lists for self-interested groups’