A HSE document which forms part of a mandatory online training program for staff about workplace relations says that failure to use preferred pronouns is a form of discrimination.
The document included in the HSELand Dignity at Work (Revised 2022) course says that “Deliberately using the wrong pronoun (e.g. he/she) when addressing someone, when the person has expressed a preference for how they should be referred to.” is an example of “inappropriate behaviour which may constitute harassment.”
The course description says it is “now mandatory for completion by all staff working in the HSE and in HSE funded services with refresher training required every three years.”
The document says that harassment may “consist of a single incident or repeated inappropriate behaviour.” where harassment “is defined in the Act [Employment Equality Acts 1998 to 2015] as any form of unwanted conduct related to any of these discriminatory grounds,”
“Harassment that is based on any of the nine grounds is a form of discrimination in relation to conditions of employment.” it says.
It is also stated that HSE employees ‘responsibilities’ include the attendance of ‘training’ and to undergo ‘assessments’ such as ‘may reasonably be required by their employer or as may be prescribed relating to safety, health and welfare at work or relating to the work carried out by the employee’.
Gript contacted the HSE asking what legal basis the document’s claims were based on given that Minister for Justice Helen McEntee recently confirmed that it is not a crime to refuse to use ‘preferred pronouns’ in Ireland.
The Minister further stated that failure to use preferred gender pronouns would not be an offence under the proposed Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022.
Gript also asked the HSE to clarify if the document was constructed under the guidance of advocacy groups such as BeLongTo or TENI. Despite being assured of a response we have not been provided with one at the time of publication.
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To which Id refuse and Id take them to court if they tried anything. This nonsesne simply will not stand up in court. All we need is someone with enough spine to tell them to rightly tell them where to go.
Unfortunately the teachers unions are captured by this, so the likes of FORSA won’t stand by the employees who are paying their wages. It’s probably the same in the HSE. We are going to be like the Scottish, a bunch of useful idiots to a hand full of bullies.
Surely it is inappropriate behaviour to insist upon being addressed as a woman when it is apparent that you are not, or vice versa. When has attempting to deconstruct the English language become part of the HSE’s remit ? Has Dáil Éireann decided to merely rubber stamp every new delusional flight-of-fancy without debating it openly ?
The weak HSE seems to be heavily infiltrated by the trans NGOs now. How much time and money is being wasted on this tomfoolery? No allowance for freedom of conscience which is a human right. I’d love to see them ending up in court on this one. HSE staff must continue to have common sense and not follow a delusion that contradicts biology.
On international womens day. A member of teni was invited to government building. How insulting to women, That same member of TENI previously called for female campaigners to be “dealt with”, “made terrified” and “smashed out of existence” nothing about that on RTE or the Irish times or the journal, basically all bloody NGOs. But do make sure you’re using those pronouns ladies and gentlemen.
How many new managers did the HSE recruit to think up this preferred pronoun nonsense? Top heavy in management. Time for the HSE to start doing what they are there to do and clear their patient waiting lists. Don’t start confusing the patients with this nonsense. Too many complaints about the HSE already. Calling another nurse ‘he’ and ‘him’ in front of patients to confuse them, when it’s plain to see the nurse is a female.
Away with that boloney.
If I were working for the HSE, I would refuse to comply because I believe it cruel to humour the delusions of people when they need counselling to face reality. I would like to see a court of law proving this is not cruel but a good thing when we see a huge surge in “mental health” diagnoses among those who are adopting this and similar deviant and muddled ideas. Further a court cannot read my mind and determine my motives for such a refusal and would have to depend on my explanation for my actions and if needs be sentence me for refusing to be cruel.
I wonder what conundrum the HSE would be placed in if I was employed there. My pronouns are nig/er.
The woke virus is rampant in the public sector, compelled speech based on a delusional ideology is where Ireland is at ????
The HSE can go on about this crap. What they can’t do is eliminate trolleys In hallways. Ridiculously long waiting lists. Provide a children’s hospital for a cost less than the Russian war budget. Sick incompetent clowns. They might consider re opening some mental hospitals for the men in skirts instead of trying to go after their staff who can tell a man from a woman. What type of deranged clowns are in charge in the Department of Health and the HSE.
Man and woman is what God made. Thoes who think they are different, my opinion is they are listening to the filth been taught and are confused ,this so called teaching has to stop in school, for those who think they are in the wrong body they need help and support now. Never in my life have I seen so many young people with very disturbing issues.. Then we never had this filth in our schools.
Give children back their freedom, no filth in schools libraries ect.
When you have the luxury of ignoring irrelevancies that option will generally be taken. Learn of the example of Fintan O’Toole. I’m no fan of his views but he definitely forced his way into relevancy in the late eighties and early nineties. He is the left wing version of Maggie (T) and Ronnie (R)