New transgender guidance has been branded as “woke” as civil servants have been told to “think” of transgender colleagues as women.
New policies issued by watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office, implies that calling employees by their preferred pronoun is not enough.
According to advice, staff can show their support for trans colleagues by “thinking of the person as being the gender that they want you to think of them as.”
It also claims that transgender women – those who are born male – go through the menopause.
Source: ‘Woke’ civil service issues staggering new transgender guidance