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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