Rules mean single-sex wards, toilets and changing rooms will now be used by people based on their biological sex

In a joint statement, TransActual and Trans+ Solidarity Alliance said the guidance would “not survive contact with reality in resource-strapped hospitals and will create unworkable operational challenges”.

“This NHS guidance emphasises clinical judgment as the priority over blanket exclusion, but leaves individual healthcare professionals unclear on how to safely look after trans patients,” they said.

“Forcing trans people into spaces for our sex assigned at birth will never be the most clinically appropriate decision, and would push trans people away from accessing care.”

  • Armand1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    20 days ago

    One thing that was missed in this article but included in the (imo slightly better) Independent one

    It adds that “where clinical needs and same-sex accommodation requirements cannot both be met, clinical needs are the priority”.

    Such occurrences, where a trans patient was placed on a ward of their gender identity, are described in the guidance as likely to be “rare” and reasons should be “clearly recorded and reported nationally as breaches of this guidance”.

    So respecting the gender identity of trans people is so scary that they have to report it nationally when it does happen.

    • ohulancutash@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      20 days ago

      They mean the figures need to be forwarded to NHS England and reported as national stats, rather than kept at trust level. Not that there will be an alert on the 6 o Clock News.