Mick Hartley

Back to north of the border, where exciting new developments continue to push the boundaries:

Hospital managers have been warned they could be guilty of discrimination if they put transwomen in single rooms to avoid upsetting patients in female-only wards.

Guidance for Scotland’s biggest health board also says that any woman who complains about a transwoman sharing their ward should be advised that “the ward is indeed female-only and that there are no men present”.

And 2 + 2 = 5. And the clocks are striking thirteen.

It comes as ministers have asked health boards around the country to explain how they accommodate trans patients, with some campaigners concerned that the trans-rights agenda could put the safety of women in female-only spaces at risk.

Will put the safety of women in female-only spaces at risk. It's already happened, with reports of a woman raped by a transwoman on a hospital ward being denied by the hospital "because her attacker is defined as a woman".

The campaign group For Women Scotland (FWS) described the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde guidance as “gaslighting and insulting”.

A spokeswoman said: “No ill and vulnerable woman wants to wake up from an operation to find a bloke staring at her from the next bed. If the NHS can’t tell the difference between a male body and a female body then it really is in dire straits.”

There should no doubt be a debate about whether transwomen should be put in single rooms (and if them, why not the rest of us?) or placed in wards according to their biological sex, but that's all the debating needed here.