Mick Hartley

Trans women should be placed on women's wards, according to some hospital trusts. If they have a history of sex crime it's not a problem: just do a risk assessment and then put them on the women's ward. If any of those silly women patients object, report them for a hate crime:

Male-born sex offenders who self-identify as women can be placed on female-only NHS wards, hospital trusts have said in guidance.

Devon, Oxford and Nottinghamshire hospitals all tell staff that a criminal history should be part of a risk assessment when placing male-born people on female-only wards, but do not say it is a bar to admission.

It comes as The Telegraph has found that NHS Trusts across the country have issued guidance that says patients should be admitted based on the gender they identify with and therefore can choose which ward, lavatory and shower facilities they use.

Some trusts have labelled those patients who express discomfort as transphobic, compared them to racists in official guidelines and ordered staff to report them to police for hate crimes.

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust notes that the “risk of sexual offending in a trans context is very rare”, adding that where there was “significant risk” staff would “apply the same robust mitigation that we would to a non-trans patient to ensure a safe therapeutic environment”.

Until 2019, one hospital group instructed medics to withdraw treatment if a female patient refused to accept a physically intact male on women-only wards.

Dr Jane Hamlin, president of the Beaumont Society, a trans support group, said: “If anyone starts off with an assumption that a trans person is a sex offender – or even a potential sex offender – that is discrimination and transphobia.  All patients, including trans people, should feel safe when in hospital.”

All patients, that is, apart from women. If women feel unsafe it can only be because they're nasty stupid bigots. The feelings of trans women – that is, of men – trump the concerns of women every time. And to assume that there's any danger at all from these lovely trans women – even if they're sex offenders – is the purest transphobia. Men pretending to be women to get access to women-only spaces? It could never happen. Well, OK, it has happened. Quite a lot, in fact. But it's still transphobic to point it out.

However, the policies have been put in place despite an order from the Department of Health that hospitals have to provide single-sex wards.

Medical staff have warned that the guidance documents put them in breach of their code of conduct and leave the most vulnerable at risk.

Staff are now too scared to raise safeguarding issues, with reports of nurses who have spoken up having lost their jobs.

Doctors say that self-identification is particularly an issue on mental health wards, where patients may be suffering delusions, and which are locked so patients cannot leave. Allegations of rape on one such unit have been made.

One nurse told The Telegraph that risk assessments of patients, including those with a known history of sexual offences, did not take place as staff were too busy.

“In-patients are often frail, elderly and confused and we as nurses have a duty to protect them,” she said.

“They are not being safeguarded and they are not getting the dignity and the privacy they deserve.

“The public believe that we have single-sex spaces for our most vulnerable, our mothers, our grandmothers, but it is simply not true. NHS wards are replicating what is happening in jails.”

She said that one mental health trust says patients expressing discomfort “could result in seclusion and long-term segregation”.

I sense the dark hand of Stonewall UK.

When hospitals were ordered to eliminate mixed-sex wards more than a decade ago, patients were hopeful it would mean that they would have privacy and dignity during a difficult time.

But since then female patients have been accused of hate crimes, placed in seclusion and even threatened with their treatment being withdrawn for questioning why men who self-identify as women are placed in single-sex accommodation.

In recent years trusts across the country have quietly written guidance for their staff which campaigners say is “dangerous” and “deliberately misinterpreting” the law.

The basis for the documents comes from an instruction by NHS England, which states that hospitals allow patients to be “accommodated according to their presentation: the way they dress, and the name and pronouns they currently use”.

As a result, a physically intact male has the right to choose to be accommodated on a female ward and to use women’s toilets and facilities.

There is no requirement for the person to have begun to legally change their gender, as is specified under equality laws, or to provide any proof that they are living as the opposite sex.

From that starting point, NHS Trusts, many under the influence of lobby groups such as Stonewall, have written their own policy and guidance documents on treating transgender patients, which medics and campaigners warn have created an “unsafe” environment.

Yep, Stonewall.

One nurse said that staff are less likely to report safeguarding concerns as they are “fearful of discipline of censure and in some cases risk being charged with a criminal offences” and often have their concerns dismissed….

The Telegraph has analysed policies issued by more than 20 trusts in England and has found that a number of them order medics to call the police and report a hate crime if patients do not accept another person’s gender identity.

In guidance from University Hospitals Birmingham, still available on their website, it states that “treatment may also be withheld” if a patient discriminates against a trans person.

In 2019 it was replaced with new guidance which removed that part of the policy, a spokesman said.

Dr Lucy Griffin, a frontline clinician, has warned MPs and peers that doctors “are really worried about the toolkits that have gone out within individual organisations largely about things like single-sex wards”.

“Some of them are so punitive,” she said. “One organisation is suggesting that any woman who objects to a male on a single-sex ward is put in seclusion, as in a psychiatric setting.”

As always, it's women who pay the price for these absurd trans dogmas.