By Shannon Mcguigan Published: 05:52 EDT, 9 October 2024 | Updated: 06:41 EDT, 9 October 2024

An NHS hospital has urged staff to avoid using the term ‘born male or female’ in a bid to avoid causing upset among the LGBTQ+ community. James Paget Hospital in Great Yarmouth has suggested NHS staff use the phrase ‘assigned female/male at birth’ as it ‘accurately depicts’ when someone is born.In their new guidance titled ‘Celebrating Pride’, the trust included a glossary of various definitions to ensure staff were using the correct LGBTQ+ terminology. However at the end of the detailed definitions, a brief included all the phrases and terms staff should not say in a bid avoid causing upset among patients. They advised staff not to say terms such as ‘ladies and gentleman’, ‘both genders’, ‘opposite sexes’, and other titles such as ‘mailman’, ‘fireman’, and ‘policeman’. James Paget Hospital (Pictured) has suggested staff avoid using the term ‘born male or female’ in a bid to avoid causing offensive among the LGBTQ+ community (file image) They also advised staff not to say terms such as ‘ladies and gentleman’, ‘both genders’, ‘opposite sexes’, and other titles such as ‘mailman’, ‘fireman’, and ‘policeman’The booklet suggests that using binary language could exclude all genders, with the use of ‘both sexes’ reinforcing the notion that there are only two genders.The guidance also urged employees not to use the term homosexual as it suggests a medical diagnosis ‘or a discomfort with gay/lesbian people’.Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe has since slammed the hospital in light of their new guidance branding it ‘ludicrous’.The 66-year-old Great Yarmouth MP said: ‘It’s astonishing that guidance from a hospital, which is full of doctors and nurses who have spent years studying, does not seem to know what happens when a baby is born.’We aren’t “assigned” male or female at birth. We are male or female at birth. There are sexes. We must not be afraid to say that.’There is no confusion around the science of childbirth. This ludicrous language suggests there is. ‘We must be respectful to all, but we must also not deny medical reality.’Mr Lowe went on to lash out further against the guidance, saying it was ‘plain bonkers’ for the NHS to be inferring ‘ladies and gentleman is offensive’. In their new guidance titled ‘Celebrating Pride’, the trust included a glossary of various definitions to ensure staff were using the correct LGBTQ+ terminology Great Yarmouth MP Rupert Lowe (Pictured) has slammed the hospital in light of its updated language guidance branding it ‘ludicrous’  The 66-year-old claimed hat the inclusive language booklet was ‘potentially dangerous’ and was sending a ‘warped message’The MP claimed that James Paget Hospital’s guidance was ‘potentially dangerous’ and was sending a ‘warped message’. ‘My constituents would prefer this inaccurate and confusing woke nonsense was left out of the hospital,’ he said.The James Paget document, which appears on the hospital’s website, was first published in 2021 but was reviewed last June.In April the Cass Review into NHS gender identity services raised concerns that evidence for allowing children to change gender was built on weak foundations. MailOnline has approached James Paget Hospitals for comment. 

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NHS hospital tells staff to avoid using the phrase ‘born male or female’ in case they offend the LGBTQ+ community