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NHS bosses have been accused of 'woke pandering' after they brought out a banner featuring flags for 21 genders or sexualities.
Different terms for those who consider themselves not belonging to any sex, or are a combination of both, are included on the banner at Royal Stoke Hospital.
The familiar Gay Pride flag, which features a rainbow, appears on the banner alongside a selection of lesser-known identities - such as Polysexual, Demiromantic and Genderqueer. The collection of flags is titled 'Everyone is welcome here.'
Patients at the hospital in Stoke-on-Trent have expressed outrage at the banner, with one telling The Sun: 'People are waiting months and even years for treatment but the NHS is more interested in woke pandering than taking care of patients it seems.'
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust - considered one of the country's worst performing - said the flag enables patients to 'be themselves'.
A banner featuring flags for 21 genders or sexualities appears at Royal Stoke Hospital
🏳️🌈In support of Pride Month, University Hospitals of North Midlands unveiled a new LGBTQ+ inclusion banner at Royal Stoke.
The banner shows 21 different flags representing that everyone is welcome here at UHNM.
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The new banner comes after NHS England, led by chief Amanda Pritchard (pictured), was criticised last year for including 18 gender options on a patient form
The trust added that the banner shows support for LGBTQ+ communities ahead of Pride month in June.
The new banner comes after NHS England, which is led by chief Amanda Pritchard, was criticised last year for including 18 gender options on a patient form.
In November last year, NHS doctors hit out at a new 'nonsensical' form they were being asked to fill out which involved ticking whether patients have a penis or vagina.
The form included questions about sexual orientation, gender, sex assigned at birth, preferred pronouns, if they have transitioned and if so to what extent and whether they have any plans to change gender in the future.
Medics were asked to fill in what 'organs the patient currently has,' 'organs present at birth,' 'organs surgically enhanced or constructed' and 'organs hormonally enhanced,' according to the Telegraph.
Doctors were given a list of possible organs the patient has which includes a penis, vagina, uterus, cervix, breasts, prostate, testes and ovaries.
But some staff have described the forms as 'insane,' 'bizarre' and 'nonsensical' from a scientific point of view.
MailOnline has contacted University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust for comment.
The flags and their meanings
- Rainbow: Familiar Gay Pride flag launched in 1978
- Progress: Gay pride flag including Transgender, Black and Brown people
- Bisexual: Those who are attracted to both men and women
- Pansexual: People who are attracted to all genders
- Nonbinary: Those who do not identify as male or female
- Transgender: People who identity as a different gender to their birth sex
- Asexual: Those who do not feel sexual attraction to anyone
- Intersex: Person born with a combination of male and female biologic traits
- Gay man: A man attracted to another man
- Lesbian: A woman attracted to another woman
- Polysexual: Sexual or romantic attraction to more than one gender
- Agender: Person who rejects gender identity and has none
- Androgyne: Someone who does not look masculine or feminine
- Genderfluid: Being more than one gender or having it change
- Genderqueer: Person who does not follow binary gender norms
- Neutrois: Person who lacks a specific gender identity
- Aromantic: Someone who has little or no romantic feeling towards others
- Demisexual: Sexual attraction to someone only after emotional closeness
- Demiromantic: Romantic attraction to someone only after becoming emotionally close
- Polyamorous: Having multiple relationships with multiple people at once
- Straight Ally: A person who is straight but supports the LGBTQ+ community
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