New NHS England guidance confirms the exclusion of trans women patients from female wards
Summary
New NHS guidance confirms the exclusion of trans women patients from female wards, the Evening Standard and The Independent reported on Thursday 15 October, the guidance for hospitals and staff coming 18 months after the Supreme Court ruling on biological sex. Under the new NHS England rules on single-sex spaces, published that Thursday, single-sex wards, toilets and changing rooms will now be used by people based on their biological sex, not their gender identity, The Guardian reported, and Sky News said that, according to the new guidance, transgender patients should be placed on hospital wards according to their birth sex rather than their gender identity. On Friday 16 October, trans rights groups said the rules will 'push trans people away from accessing care', The Independent reported, while Bethany Hutchison, president of the Darlington Nursing Union, welcomed the 'clear and necessary guidance from NHS England', according to Chronicle Live.
Latest: Trans rights groups said the new NHS England rules will 'push trans people away from accessing care', The Independent reported, while Bethany Hutchison, president of the Darlington Nursing Union, welcomed the 'clear and necessary guidance from NHS England', according to Chronicle Live.
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How it unfolded
Friday 16 October
Trans rights groups said the new NHS England rules will 'push trans people away from accessing care', The Independent reported, while Bethany Hutchison, president of the Darlington Nursing Union, welcomed the 'clear and necessary guidance from NHS England', according to Chronicle Live.
- 04:39Chronicle LiveNHS confirms updated guidance on admitting transgender patients to hospital wards
- 02:51The IndependentTrans women barred from female hospital wards under new NHS guidance
Thursday 15 October
New NHS England guidance on single-sex spaces confirms the exclusion of trans women patients from female wards, with single-sex wards, toilets and changing rooms now used by people based on their biological sex, not their gender identity, the Evening Standard, The Independent and The Guardian reported.
- 13:15The GuardianTrans women no longer to be placed on female-only wards under new NHS England guidance
- 13:10The IndependentNew NHS guidance confirms exclusion of trans women patients from female wards
- 12:23Sky NewsTrans patients to be placed on wards according to their birth sex in England
- 10:55Evening StandardNew NHS guidance confirms exclusion of trans women patients from female wards