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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During Covid there seemed to be state control of the newspapers only it was the pernicious British government via the advertising spend.
Indeed – which is worse? Hard to say. The British government doesn’t appear to be acting on behalf of the British people and appears to be “follow” directives from “foreign” or “global” entities.
Also what about the BBC? That seems pretty foreign to me, in that it doesn’t share values with me and a lot of others. It’s also controlled by a government.
Well that’s cleared things up.
Foreign states will not be allowed to take over British news organisations but Foreign organisations are allowed to take over the British government.
Nice and tidy.
Chinese sponsorship of UK newspaper will probably also still be allowed. Makes one wonder if the UAE guy perhaps failed to grease the right wheels.
Brown envelopes? British government? Heaven forbid!
Not forgetting all the foreign nationals (aka illegal immigrants) taking over British hotels and holiday camps.
But foreign individuals will still be able to shower them with cash a la Dr Gates presumably.
Can anyone in Scotland attest to this? You have ‘Hate Crime Reporting Centres’ moonlighting as sex shops? WTF is this??
”The Scottish Government has created walk-in snitching centres in every major Scottish city where people can report ‘hate crimes’ under the new Hate Crime and Public Order Act and the one in Glasgow is in a sex shop!
Welcome to Humza Yousaf’s Scotland, where you can go shopping for a dildo and report a ‘hate crime’ at the same time.”
https://twitter.com/toadmeister/status/1767852719761445249
Condoming innocent people…
I would read between the lines. They obviously see a certain pathway ahead that they aren’t speaking about and they are trying to be a step ahead. It would be nice to think that their strategems represent a well-informed attempt to save our future but it is far from this. Just look at the events of the last five years. You can see the level of capture, which has necessitated a level of ineptitude. The strange spectacle of Joe Biden. At first I was a little perplexed why they even let him out in public. And then it was obvious. He is meant to look that way for a number of reasons foremost among them being the tacit cry for help of the Western mythos. Then you had the mad dog theory of war, look it up. And then the arrrogance of victory of the corporate state showing you what they can get away with. Just soberly look at it all. People with huge fibrous growths in their veins and they don’t seem too troubled about it at all. Surely this suggests a lack of vitality and a fatalism resigned to death of our culture.
State ownership or funding of British news organisations (whether they’re foreign states or our own) should be banned. That includes the state funding of the BBC.
There are cliches like ‘the breakdown of the rule of law’. This doesn’t even come close to what is coming. It will come via fifth dimensional warfare on one hand and deepening lassitude among the general public on the other. It might be demoralisation or it might be ill-health and the two will merge into one. You could easily look at the status quo and think that it isn’t even worth bothering with. But that is to give in to the force we oppose. The violinist Jascha Haifetz broke one of his strings during a performance and carried on playing until the end with three strings. Afterwards somebody asked him why he carried on and he said that it is our duty to carry on and try to make something beautiful even with just three strings. Anything less means that you have capitulated.
The whole discussion is ludicrous given the takeover of local radio in the mid 1990s. Local radio was very important largely because ir was decentralised. We weren’t all born under a Chrstmas tree and as Milan Kunera said, the power of man over tyranny is the power of memory over forgetting,
But Foreign Ownership of UK transport, energy, water supplies, steel industry, care homes, government computer systems, supermarkets, and vast tracts of British land, for example, are fine. Well that’s a relief.