WOKE hospital bosses have banned staff from saying babies are born male or female.
Instead doctors and nurses should refer to children being “assigned” as boys or girls at birth.
But critics condemned the advice in the eight-page James Paget Hospital guide, which also warns against using the terms ladies and gentlemen or calling someone a fireman or a policeman.
The online booklet was produced for staff to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community during Pride Month earlier this year.
A section on inclusive language says they should avoid using the terms “born female” or “born male” but instead say “assigned female/male at birth”.
An example includes: “Max was assigned female at birth, then he transitioned in high school.”
The hospital, which opened 40 years ago, serves 250,000 people living in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
Local Reform MP Rupert Lowe said: “This is bonkers. My constituents would prefer this inaccurate and confusing woke nonsense was left out of the hospital.
“Layers and layers of meddling NHS management must be slashed down — with every ‘diversity’-related role made redundant in the public sector.
“Get rid of the lot and divert those funds into the pockets of the frontline staff actually delivering for patients.
“Public money should not be spent on the woke language police. Utterly ludicrous and I will continue to call it out.”
The guide also includes a glossary of LGBTQ+ words, including gender-neutral pronouns and reproductions of nine different transgender flags.
The James Paget University Hospitals Trust said: “We are not making any comment on this matter.”