The NHS has delayed a ban on staff who are trans women in female changing rooms and lavatories until the autumn.
Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, promised new guidance in April, after the Supreme Court ruled that trans women – people who are biological men – should be barred from using women’s single-sex services.
The Telegraph can reveal that NHS England has no plans to bring out the guidance until “late summer or early autumn” – meaning it may not be published until October or November.
Women’s rights charities said that in not complying with the law, hospitals and GP surgeries were putting female staff and patients in an “undignified and humiliating” position.
The group Sex Matters said it had been approached by staff at several English trusts who had raised objections to biological men in female facilities, but were rebuffed.
NHS England’s delay comes even though a health trust in Scotland faces a huge payout to a nurse who was forced to share a changing room with a trans doctor.
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(There so many NHS threads couldn't work out if this belonged on one of them, or should have its own.)