What if a female patient who wants a catheter, requests a female nurse, and the male looking nurse says they identify as a woman.
This may sound silly, but I had a 40yr female colleague (at least she looked female) tell me that gender is a 'fluid social construct' and that it is wrong to assume someone is a man or women just because they look like one.
If this is what society is teaching us, and our children, then what happens when people can't agree on who is man or woman anymore?
Of course, in this instance, you'd get the patient a traditional looking female, but then could the male looking nurse, who identifies as female, claim some sort of discrimination, or even blame the employer for putting them in such a humiliating position?
"Boys will be boys and girls will be girls it's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world except for Lola, la la la la Lola."
These posts remind me of this song by the Kinks...
Good thought. For me though, it's like
This is the song that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started singing it, not knowing what it was, and they'll continue singing it forever just because...This is the song that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend. This is the song that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started singing it, not knowing what it was, and they'll continue singing it forever just because...This is the song that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend.This is the song that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started singing it, not knowing what it was, and they'll continue singing it forever just because...This is the song that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend....
CharleeFoxtrot, BSN, RN
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Good thought. For me though, it's like