The corporate virtue-signal laundry
Public and private bodies are washing their reputations through social justice propaganda
Activist groups are held to be an important element of civil society that underpins and reinforces democracy. But what if some of those groups are now actively undermining democracy?
A number of them now wield wildly disproportionate influence on governments, public bodies and the corporate sector. Of course, lobbying groups have always existed. But these organisations are often pushing an ideological or political agenda which is deeply partisan, passes off propaganda as fact and distorts public policy — an influence that remains almost wholly unseen by the general public.
The Mail has discovered that dozens of NHS hospital trusts have been commonly stating controversial gender theories as fact. The paper reports:
Many avoid saying that humans are born male or female, and instead assert that doctors simply “assign” a sex to babies…Guidance published internally by both Sheffield and University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust states: “Globally, many cultures recognise more than two genders. As with sexuality, in the west binary categories dominate (male/female, gay/straight). In modern-era western history, these have been imposed on a human experience which is not binary through colonial incursion, when the values of one culture were imposed on another culture.” No evidence is provided for this assertion.
Too right! The enormous range of public and private bodies now actively promoting transgender ideology is largely due to the astounding influence of the LGBT campaigning body Stonewall, which has split the LGB movement by relentlessly and aggressively pushing transgender ideology against the bitter opposition of lesbians and others.
Through its Equality Index and Diversity Champions Schemes, Stonewall effectively audits companies and other public and private sector organisations to grade how good they are for LGBT employees and how advanced they are in LGBT rights. Dozens of hospital trusts, as well as countless other bodies, have signed up for these schemes and have drafted their transgender guidance in collaboration with Stonewall’s ideologues.
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