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The Royal College of Midwives has apologised after excluding the words 'women' and 'mother' in favour of 'postnatal people' in its latest guidance for handling sleeping babies. The guidance, which has since been taken down from the RCM's website,. ....
The choice of wording prompted an angry backlash from women when it was shared on Twitter, with one describing it as virtue signalling to a woke agenda. ....
The document, entitled ‘Glossary A-Z’, covered themes running from A for ‘allyship’ to X for ‘xenophobia’. But the NHS has made the website password-protected after receiving a backlash on social media. Tory MP Neil O’Brien tweeted: ‘A number of the concepts in this alphabet of woke are highly divisive – they shouldn’t be being officially pushed like this Among the entries in the glossary are G for ‘gender’, ‘gender dysphoria’ and ‘gender identity’; T for ‘taking the knee’, ‘tokenism’, ‘tone policing’, ‘transgender man’, ‘transgender woman’, ‘transitioning’, and ‘transphobia’. Another entry under W for ‘white fragility’ described the term as ‘a state in which even a minimum of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves by white people’. ....