Do not call fat people obese, ‘sensitivity’ guide tells NHS workers

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Lord Young, the founder of the Free Speech Union, said the advice would do a “fat lot of help”.

“The obsessive language policing by woke mandarins is symptomatic of the intellectual vacuity of the progressive Left, who now think that the way to help disadvantaged people – sorry, the ‘underserved’ – is to relabel them in a more politically correct way,” he told The Telegraph. “A fat lot of help that will be, if I’m allowed to use that word. What a ‘person with obesity’ needs is not a nice new label, but a GP appointment so they can get a prescription for Ozempic.”

Tim Sigsworth, The Telegraph, 3rd February 2025.