Outed or not, it is nobody's business. There is no
other way of looking at it: there has been an
outrageous breach of privacy.
Alan
--- Vic <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 10:46:37 +0100
> From: Vic <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Notes and their ownership: Grumpy old
> man
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> As a gay doctor who is in a Civil Partnership and
> totally "out", I must
> admit that there is a lot of covert homophobia and
> just a few people who try
> to compensate for it by being definitely "gay
> friendly".
>
> Nobody is openly bigoted these days, but there is
> the exclusion from mailing
> lists, adverse comments behind your back etc. I have
> had a colleague tell a
> total stranger that I was going to work with in the
> future that I will be in
> their trousers given half a chance. Admittedly it
> was whilst he was drunk,
> but he was in the company of others who knew me who
> didn't say anything at
> the time, just told me later.
>
> Stating that you are Gay on a form does not protect
> you, rather the
> opposite. It's proving it that is so difficult.
>
> "Sexual orientation accidentally published on a
> website for all to see was a
> mistake (was it?), Oop's sorry that the cat is out
> of the bag, no need to
> keep bitching on about it, after all, who knows you,
> it's not as if you were
> the Queen, snigger. Don't take offence at what is
> said. After all, it was
> only meant as a joke wasn't it?"
>
> Yeh, right......
>
> Vic Calland
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Accident and Emergency Academic List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> McCormick Simon Dr,
> Consultant, A&E
> Sent: 08 May 2007 10:00
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Notes and their ownership: Grumpy old
> man
>
> Yes, but the issue with race/gender/age is that
> these are (usually)
> overt on application forms and certainly at
> interview, sexual preference
> is not. Asking people to provide this information
> only looks
> suspicious, as now that information is in the hands
> of the
> selectors/authorities when it wasn't previously.
>
> Simon
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Accident and Emergency Academic List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Dunn Matthew (South
> Warwickshire General Hospitals NHS Trust)
> Sent: 08 May 2007 09:06
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Notes and their ownership: Grumpy old
> man
>
> The reason that sexual preference is now on
> application forms is that it
> is now
> illegal to discriminate on the grounds of sexual
> preference unless there
> are valid
> and proportionate reasons for doing so. Having it on
> the forms enables
> equal
> opportunities monitoring in the same way as
> ethnicity.
>
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