From the Times:
A senior doctor is bringing legal action against her NHS trust, claiming a “bearded” transgender patient was allowed on to a female psychiatric ward only to expose himself to fellow patients, The Times can reveal.
The consultant psychiatrist, anonymised as “Dr A”, lodged a tribunal claim against Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust last month.
She told how many of the “vulnerable” women on the female ward were detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 and included victims of sexual violence.
The consultant claimed that after patients complained about the behaviour and presence of the male patient who identifies as female, he was moved to a male ward.
But the doctor alleged that managers at the trust intervened and the trans woman was returned to the female ward.
It’s the managers. Always the managers.
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