cheka.
1st November 2019, 01:47 PM
suspended for a couple of truth bombs. country is fubar
https://www.wcpo.com/news/our-community/trihealth-emergency-room-nurse-suspended-after-anti-gay-anti-trans-tirade-on-facebook
CINCINNATI — A TriHealth emergency room nurse was placed on administrative leave Monday after launching into a profane, anti-gay tirade on Facebook, writing in part that “this country has gone to complete ****” and “these ****ing ****-sucking h**** think they deserve everything.”
The catalyst? A recent decision by Procter & Gamble-owned Always, which manufactures menstrual products, to remove the feminine Venus symbol from its pad packaging. The change arrived after a social media campaign by transgender customers, who wrote to the brand requesting that it remove the symbol to avoid alienating transgender men and nonbinary people with periods.
The nurse posted multiple times in response. In two comments screenshotted by City Councilman Chris Seelbach, she wrote she did not believe in the existence of transgender people, that entitled gay men and “confused woman” were ruining the country, and that “Men need to be men. Women need to be women.”
Tristan Vaught, a nonbinary activist involved in advancing transgender acceptance through the Living With Change foundation, said the comments were upsetting but not surprising.
“This is the reason why transgender people don’t feel comfortable going to the doctor, and they don’t feel comfortable accessing medical care,” Vaught said. “In hospitals, you’re not sure who you’re going to get.”
Cases of healthcare professionals who judge, mistreat or refuse to see transgender patients are common enough to make national news and some Department of Justice victim interaction guidelines, which make a similar point to Vaught’s: Fear of judgment and mistreatment can keep transgender people from seeking care even when they are victims of violent or sexual crimes.
Seelbach, who is gay, called for a boycott of TriHealth in response to the nurse’s comments.
"Nurses should be able to treat anyone regardless of our differences, and having such extreme views and being able to put them out there publicly would make a lot of us apprehensive of wanting a nurse to treat us,” he said. “I would not feel comfortable going to TriHealth knowing that this woman could treat me as a nurse."
https://www.wcpo.com/news/our-community/trihealth-emergency-room-nurse-suspended-after-anti-gay-anti-trans-tirade-on-facebook
CINCINNATI — A TriHealth emergency room nurse was placed on administrative leave Monday after launching into a profane, anti-gay tirade on Facebook, writing in part that “this country has gone to complete ****” and “these ****ing ****-sucking h**** think they deserve everything.”
The catalyst? A recent decision by Procter & Gamble-owned Always, which manufactures menstrual products, to remove the feminine Venus symbol from its pad packaging. The change arrived after a social media campaign by transgender customers, who wrote to the brand requesting that it remove the symbol to avoid alienating transgender men and nonbinary people with periods.
The nurse posted multiple times in response. In two comments screenshotted by City Councilman Chris Seelbach, she wrote she did not believe in the existence of transgender people, that entitled gay men and “confused woman” were ruining the country, and that “Men need to be men. Women need to be women.”
Tristan Vaught, a nonbinary activist involved in advancing transgender acceptance through the Living With Change foundation, said the comments were upsetting but not surprising.
“This is the reason why transgender people don’t feel comfortable going to the doctor, and they don’t feel comfortable accessing medical care,” Vaught said. “In hospitals, you’re not sure who you’re going to get.”
Cases of healthcare professionals who judge, mistreat or refuse to see transgender patients are common enough to make national news and some Department of Justice victim interaction guidelines, which make a similar point to Vaught’s: Fear of judgment and mistreatment can keep transgender people from seeking care even when they are victims of violent or sexual crimes.
Seelbach, who is gay, called for a boycott of TriHealth in response to the nurse’s comments.
"Nurses should be able to treat anyone regardless of our differences, and having such extreme views and being able to put them out there publicly would make a lot of us apprehensive of wanting a nurse to treat us,” he said. “I would not feel comfortable going to TriHealth knowing that this woman could treat me as a nurse."