It's not just women who experience menopause, insists SNP trends now
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Feminists have accused the Scottish Government of ‘engaging with fantasy’ after a report claimed that it’s ‘not just women’ who experience symptoms of the menopause.
The guidance, which campaigners have slated as ‘insulting and demeaning’, comes in a report on NHS Scotland’s employee policy.
The Scottish Government has ordered every health board in Scotland to implement the new approach after staff said that they wanted more support to manage symptoms at work.
It told boards: ‘Effective management of colleagues with menopausal and menstrual health symptoms can help to improve team morale, retain valuable skills and talent, address inequalities and reduce sickness absence.
‘Whilst most of those affected by this policy will be women, transgender, non-binary and intersex employees may also experience menopause and menstrual health related symptoms.’
JK Rowling was first moved to criticise gender ideology by similar wording about periods
The interim National Menopause and Menstrual Health Policy for NHS Scotland was sent to all Scottish health boards by the SNP government
Susan Smith, director of For Women Scotland, said: ‘Once again, the truth is being twisted and contorted and the Scottish Government is trying to impose an anti-science ideology on the NHS.
Clinicians must surely be aware that menopause is uniquely an experience belonging to the female sex. It is
