Campaigners said the online teaching module had “gone horribly wrong in an attempt to be inclusive”Midwifery students in Scotland were taught that biological males could become pregnant and were given guidance on how to catheterise “birthing people” with penises. An online module at Napier University in Edinburgh provoked disbelief by promoting the “biologically impossible”, but most students were said to have been reluctant to speak up for fear they would be victimised for challenging its “inclusive” content. SponsoredThe course book has been condemned by Joanna Cherry, an SNP MP, who said that “an attempt to produce trans-inclusive language” had resulted in “poor-quality, scientifically inaccurate teaching materials”. In its overhaul of a course guide on catheterisation, Napier changed “women” to “birthing people” and offered instructions on how to catheterise a penis. The member of staff who revised the notes at

Source: The Times April 29, 2022 04:03 UTC