Yes, our brilliant NHS placed a trans man – a woman identifying as a man – in an all-male secure psychiatric ward. What could possibly go wrong? And then they obstructed the investigation.
An NHS trust deliberately obstructed a police investigation into the rape of a transgender patient on an all-male secure psychiatric ward.
Male patients chanted “no Adam’s apple” when the 5ft 3in biological female arrived on the ward and within an hour the victim was raped in a cupboard.
The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust ignored dozens of requests for records from detectives investigating the attack. Staff accidentally forwarded an internal note saying “don’t give them any more”. The obstructive behaviour meant a mentally ill patient wrongly stood trial for the rape.
Two men were tried this year but midway through proceedings detectives cornered a staff member and finally obtained patient rotas that showed one of the defendants could not have been involved. The judge discharged Luther Badejo, 30, midway through the trial when the revelations torpedoed the case against him. His co-defendant, Davointe Thomas, 27, was convicted of rape and was handed an indefinite hospital order in April.
A source close to the investigation said the trust had “gone into self-preservation mode” after the rape and was “obstructive from the outset”.
MPs, academics and campaigners have called for an inquiry into how the hospital admitted a vulnerable biological woman onto a ward made up entirely of men sectioned under the Mental Health Act, and its “abhorrent” actions after the rape.
I know it’s customary to demand that heads must roll when such cases come to light, but yes, here they really should. What an absolute disgrace.
Added:
– On gender identity. “For some people, treatment may just involve acceptance and affirmation or confirmation of their identity.” https://slam.nhs.uk/gender-dysphoria?utm_source=chatgpt.com
On the importance of Pride: it is “the right to be seen and accepted as the person you truly are.” https://slam.nhs.uk/blog/why-do-we-celebrate-pride-at-south-london-and-maudsley-446
In 2024, I wrote in an Unherd investigation on the capture of the NHS by gender ideology: “one Pride post on the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust website … talks about “the fight for LGBT rights” as something “to be won against your family or your neighbours or whoever is directly around you”.’ https://unherd.com/2024/04/the-liberal-lessons-of-the-cass-report/
That is the fantasy. You, a staff member, are a freedom fighter. You are a hero, saving vulnerable people from the urgent threat of misgendering or being put in sex-appropriate facilities. I’m sure it made staff feel very noble at the time.
The reality: today we learn that in 2022, a 5ft 3 female who said/believed she was a man was put on male psychiatric ward, and raped within hours.…
Mick Hartley 
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