Government orders civil servants to avoid calling taxpayers ‘he’ and ‘she’ or assuming a ‘Mr’ is male so transgender people are not offended

/ Mike Buchanan

Our thanks to Mike P for this. The start of the piece:

Civil servants should avoid using gendered pronouns like ‘he’ and ‘she’ or assuming someone with the title ‘Mr’ is male, according to the latest government directives.

The rules, which apply to all Whitehall departments, are intended to avoid causing offence to people whose chosen gender does not identify with their biological sex.

Enter a voice of sanity:

Philip Davies, MP for Shipley, called the directives – which were last updated in December 2016 and remain current – ‘politically-correct claptrap’.

‘If the government has nothing better to worry about than this then that is a pretty sad state of affairs,’ he told MailOnline.

‘There’s a huge majority of the public who are actually rather offended by this political correctness.

‘If they concerned themselves more with people concerned with this nonsense they might actually get somewhere.

‘The world has gone mad and the government seem to be at the vanguard of making it mad.’

3 thoughts on “Government orders civil servants to avoid calling taxpayers ‘he’ and ‘she’ or assuming a ‘Mr’ is male so transgender people are not offended”

  1. All this is quite clever. Increasingly large corporations, specially Gov agencies and bodies such as Media companies “test” peoples “values” as part of the recruitment process. Of course what they test for is “diversity” and such like PC “values” . Now unless one is a recent Graduate or avid Guardian Reader the language and correct answers will be quite obscure, in language as well as content. It is in fact a very effective part of stalling social mobility. Because inevitably someone from the wider society will be very unlikely to understand the rarefied language and nuances of offense, let alone know what the answers should be. For instance “offence to people whose chosen gender does not identify with their biological sex” will be “Greek” to most people in the language used let alone the distance from real life.
    I think the “government” by which I don’t really mean the politicians who preside over it prioritises such things to ensure it continues to be full of the “right” people. Which of course means people like them PC is really just a new form of snobbery/etiquette in this context.

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  3. Philip Davis’ comments are spot on – it IS “Politically Correct claptrap”.

    I do just wonder though how many people understand that ‘Political Correctness’ is not just something that has gone too far and somehow ‘Gone Mad’, but actually means ‘”revenge for the collapse of the Soviet Union with a view to resurrecting it here” or at least to establishing and maintaining a new ‘right thinking elite’?

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