Absurd: according to guidelines, anyone who has to report a medical emergency in England must be asked their pronouns first. Because no matter how pressing the time – the “wrong gender” should be avoided at all costs.
The Daily Mail recently inquired about the UK’s emergency services policies on transgender people. The answers show an unsophisticated world view: apparently, the official point of view now is that it is completely impossible to guess a person’s gender by his or her voice. For example, according to a staff document for the North East Ambulance Service, addresses such as “Mr” and “Ms” should be avoided. It is better to ask for the caller’s pronoun first.
The South East Coast Ambulance Service goes a step further, claiming that regularly asking for the caller’s pronouns makes calls “more effective” in life-or-death situations: “Inappropriate pronouns create tension and are already can cause difficulties.” make matters worse,” it says. Trans women (i.e. men) in particular have problems raising the pitch of their voices, which is why they are mistaken for men. It is suspected that What’s so bad about it – women who are regularly mistaken for men on the phone because of a dark, slurred voice usually don’t have heart attacks. They clear up the misunderstanding with a short sentence or ignore it Do it because other things are more important.
It has been argued that the search for pronouns will not slow down the response to an emergency – how much helping a person in distress will be helped by routinely addressing the possible mental health problems of the person calling for help remains an open question. Normal people simply don’t suffer from “gender dysphoria” – and anyone who initially asks how many days of the week he identifies as a person and how many as a cargo bike clearly doesn’t. does not report a genuine emergency. It is to be hoped that British Ambulance Service staff will follow these politically correct guidelines as they do in many other businesses: they will heed them and ignore them.
