Anger at NHS Guidance That Lets Patients Who ‘Temporarily’ Identify as Female Share Single-Sex NHS Spaces
In the face of NHS guidelines, there is growing concern as individuals can gain access to female-only wards based on transient gender identification, prompting urgent calls for the Health Secretary to intervene. The Mail has the story.
The Health Secretary faced pressure tonight to scrap ‘shocking’ rules that mean patients who only occasionally identify as women can share female-only hospital wards.
NHS guidance uncovered in a major audit by the Daily Mail means transgender women can use the facilities they wish, regardless of whether or not they have had surgery or legally changed sex.
Many hospitals make it clear that patients need only ‘temporarily’ present as women to enter female-only bays and bathrooms.
One NHS trust’s policy states: “People who are not living full-time as a woman have been on women’s wards with no issues at all.” Some liken anyone who objects to the policy to racists, while others make it clear that if another patient complains, it is they who must move rather than the trans person.
Campaigners warn it makes a mockery of strict rules that ban hospitals from placing men and women in neighbouring beds.
They want Health Secretary Steve Barclay to take urgent action after a review was launched two years ago amid concerns about the policy but never published.
An investigation by this newspaper into the extent to which ‘woke’ gender ideology has infiltrated the NHS can also reveal:
- Midwives are told that they could harm trans people who have given birth by calling them ‘mother’.
- Staff are given long lists of baffling terms from ‘abrosexual’ to ‘third-gendered’, some of which have been written by lobbying groups such as Stonewall.
- Official policies mis-state equality law, experts say, as well as ignoring women’s rights and gender-critical beliefs.
Tonight, leading campaigner Maya Forstater, Executive Director of Sex Matters, said: “These policies are shocking. They put the health of transgender patients at risk, and undermine the rights of everyone else.
“If there is one place where it should be obvious that no one should be confused about a person’s sex it is when they are receiving medical treatment.
“These hospital policies have clearly been developed by ideologically committed staff who have captured the process.”
She urged the Health Secretary to “take responsibility” and rewrite guidance on mixed-sex accommodation as well as “provide clear guidance to the NHS on what the law actually says”.
Heather Binning, founder of the Women’s Rights Network, said: “In 2010 the Government announced it would end the ‘indignity’ of mixed-sex wards, yet wards that are organised by gender may well become mixed sex in the current climate.”
Former Cabinet minister Ranil Jayawardena said: “For any part of the NHS to issue diktats to their staff that put biological males on female wards is wrong. Single-sex wards should be just that.”
Mixed-sex wards were banned in 2010 in order to protect patients’ dignity, until the rules were quietly relaxed in 2020. But Annex B to NHS England’s 2019 guidance on ‘Delivering same-sex accommodation’ made it clear that placing transgender women – who were born male – on a female-only ward did not count as a breach.
It stated: “Trans people should be accommodated according to their presentation: The way they dress, and the name and pronouns they currently use.”
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I can’t imagine that yesterday’s world could ever have been as absurd as today’s.
And seemingly many people believe the absurdities.
Buckle up for the atrocities yet to come!
I can imagine that comment having been made historically prior to any power grab. Many people go along with it for a quiet life. It might take an attrocity for them to realise what they’ve been supporting.
To be allowed to temporarlily identify as something that you’re not is a perverts charter.
Certainly it has nothing to do with the psychiatric condition of gender dysphoria. It’s true that adolescents, in particular, usually emerge from it in time, but it’s not a transient condition like, say, biphasic disorder.
The idea of being temporarily in the wrong body is about whimsy or manipulation, or some socially-engineered idea that whatever you call yourself at the time, you are. A million examples show that society does not sanction that in general – hospitals clearly do not encourage you to be admitted as Adolph Hitler, except, perhaps, to the psychiatric ward.
Pervert’s dream more like.
In a hospital or clinic it’s pretty certain that clinical staff can determine sex, that is biological sex, accurately.
So, if a person in a frock, standing over six foot with stubble and a dodgy wig goes anywhere near a ladies loo it can be challenged, examined, identified and redirected.
Mind you, I wouldn’t want to share the gents with it either.
You know DAILYSCEPTIC has made it when it becomes a target for this kind of crap 👍
To be honest, I can’t see that it makes much difference, as everytime I have attended a hospital ward within the past 30 years, either as a visitor or patient, there have been men and women in wards together, or men and women separate, but on different sides of the same ward. My mother in law had a male patient climb into her bed, which i don’t believe is unusual. Ward loos are usually shared between the sexes as well.
Anyway, these days, any new hospital should be built with one or two bed rooms only. The idea of communal wards has a Victorian/work house vibe.
The headline should read “NHS allows men to use female-only spaces”.
Or if you want to be less diplomatic “NHS allows mentally ill men to use female-only spaces”
Amazing that the NHS was able to go to enormous lengths to separate people into “Covid case” and “non-Covid case” but can’t quite seem to manage to separate male and female.
They didn’t achieve that so well, either. Test routine admission patients every day until there’s an inevitable false PCR positive, then transfer to the COVID ward to catch the infection and die.
Anyway, to separate the sexes you have to be able to define a woman, which seems to be a problem even for medically-trained people nowadays.
“Trans people should be accommodated according to their presentation: The way they dress,
They tend to dress like a grandmother from the 1950s
I noticed the breathtaking hypocrisy of Costa as they are among this year’s sponsors of MacMillan Coffee Mornings – which supports those living with cancer….
They also call people racist if they make a reasonable and polite complaint!
Whatever you do with trans women, even temporary ones, don’t question their motives.
Men, however, are nasty brutes who only wish to dominate women and satisfy their basest desires.
Can’t we just go back in time 15+ years, when there were only 2 genders and men that ‘temporarily’ presented as women were just bog-standard transvestites? Life was much simpler back then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvH1LLZeef4&ab_channel=Tutbit
Brilliant
Sat in a corridor with other patients and we all laughed at the door proclaiming “Gender Neutral” we told a poor nurse, it read like a London Underground Tube station. She didn’t know where to put herself, so embarrassed.