Another NHS Trust perverts the course of justice in relation to a rape case.

That enraged me too. Though I think the reason is possibly because the original story (about the rape) had already received some media attention, so the innocent man being charged was a new development in the story. Looking at the way it's written, the Times seems to have gained the information from a source (probably within the police), which may explain why it hasn't been covered by other media.

I hope this story doesn't go away - if the police don't charge hospital staff with conspiring to pervert the course of justice it will be a scandal. Obviously the CEO ought to resign too, and it's a disgrace that he's still in post.

Oh I’d assume it was to protect the Board
The cover up on this case doesnt indicate they’re particularly bothered about protecting male patients? Looking after No1 more like it?

I am horrified that this has had so little press coverage. And the focus seems to be on how the trust failed to prevent an innocent man being charged, rather than that the trust locked a vulnerable woman up with a bunch of dangerous men

I hope those involved are tried as accessories or privately prosecuted for dereliction of something or other. Someone should be held accountable for this.

She was quoted in the article as saying, “He’s ruined my life and taken away who I was. Before this I was never afraid,” the victim said. “I can’t continue with the statement, there are too many tears.”

I found myself wondering whether she had transitioned because she felt that she would be safer as a man. If that played any part, then those who aided her in transitioning, rather than helping her come to terms with whatever she was struggling with are also culpable.

Mentally unwell men who had (apparently) commited sexual offences previously.

Whoever wrote the email "don't tell the police" need to be named and charged with obstructing the police.

Broadmoor gave Jimmy Saville access to patients and even keys so if they didn’t learn from that debacle then there’s no hope! www.gov.uk/government/publications/jimmy-savile-investigation-broadmoor-hospital

I would say it’s far more serious from a regulatory perspective than the (serious in itself) MAFS issue …those going on MAFS are meant to be psychologically vetted ,they are competent adults in theory able to consent and have a production team around them, access to phones etc. Working in MH you absolutely should understand the inherent vulnerability of patients who are mentally unwell, likewise in any area of medicine, and that includes awareness of how risk assessment and safe guarding should work , for the trans person themselves and fellow patients. The TW with dementia placed on a female ward who is walking around half naked or getting into bed with another patient thinking it is their wife is not having their privacy and dignity needs met either . Neither is the TW on a brain injury unit placed in a female only bay who is openly masturbating with the bed covers off because of their cognitive deficit. None of those situations,which anyone caring for male patients in the NHS would potentially have encountered ,would be acceptable.

I can't help but think that that is to protect the males from being accused more than anything else. That may seem harsh but we are where they have put us.

It's all about benefitting men and not seeing women as actual people though, isn't it? You allow men into women's spaces....with the predictable and well-discussed negative effects on women. You then allow women the same "opportunity" to be in a wrong-sex environment- which is infinitely more dangerous in most cases to the women.

And ta-da! Kudos for being fair and "kind" to everyone, men get access to women and like in this case, men, who should absolutely not have access to women, get it too. Every man's a winner...if they're that kind of man. Decent men will be as horrified and alarmed by this as women are.

Moloney will be including vaginoplasty in his definition of 'vagina'.

Edit. Of course a female who has had phalloplasty and her vagina surgically closed, will not be included in Moloney's definition.

Absolutely horrific. I'm so glad, however, that the journalist was able to find a suitably qualified ex boxing promoter to bless us with his insights. I note in passing that even Frank Moloney understands that the basis of women's oppression, and in this case brutalisation, lies in possession of a vagina and not a "most vulnerable ever gender identity".

I posted this on the AIBU thread, but shall add it here too:

If someone uses the word 'cis', or ever chants the mantra TWAW, TMAM or NBAV in earnest, it should immediately veto them from having anything to do with safeguarding.

I have never seen anything corrupt logic, thought or reason like gender identity ideology does before.

The victim in the OP's link should never, ever have been put in that situation. The cover up is horrific and the people involved should be investigated and held to account.

I hope this case starts the process of gutting gender ideology from NHS policy and from safeguarding in general.

This ought to be a massive scandal at the top of every news bulletin. It ought to damage the NHS in the same way that the Savile scandal damaged the BBC.
And yet here we are, and so far I've seen one report of the story in the media, and that was in the Times.

It reminds me a bit of wondering how on earth those ridiculous gender self-id laws ever got passed in Germany. Surely the German public, German women, woudn't have let that pass? But I suppose if there's not much about it in the papers, and everyone on the telly thinks it's great...

Absolutely horrific

These bastards. Knowingly endangered an unwell woman.

I wonder how the poor woman is now. What’s that phrase intersectionalists use? Multiple areas of vulnerability. She didn’t stand a chance. Small, female, trans and mentally unwell. Let’s put her in with the mentally unwell men.

I was struck by this too.

And, yet, Southampton Spygate has been top story on Sky UK News for over 24 hours now

https://news.sky.com/story/spygate-latest-southampton-kicked-out-of-championship-play-off-final-13545917

Apparently, more than by-elections, HS2 fiasco, and the "small" matter of an NHS Trust covering up a rape that they enabled, THIS is what's most important in the country today, people!

This just about beggars belief, from the stupid, stupid policy of pretending that FTM patients are actually men, to the ideological idiots insisting on not using common sense, right through to the systematic obstruction of the Police investigation.

The poor victim, she was unwell enough to be sectioned and was thrown to the wolves by those whose responsibility it was to keep her safe. Instead of stabilising her mental health, they chose to ruin it.

It's absolutely rotten, through and through. I certainly agree that there needs to be prosecutions here and a huge rocket put up the collective NHS arse.

What on Earth made them think that putting a small, slightly built woman in a ward with violent sex offenders would not end very badly?

There is simply NO excuse.

This ought to be a massive scandal at the top of every news bulletin. It ought to damage the NHS in the same way that the Savile scandal damaged the BBC.

Yes it should. It amazes me how serious news gets buried so easily by our mainstream media. Is it too embarrassing for the BBC to concede that GC were right from the very beginning about single sex spaces. Being told you're just transphobic for pointing out the obvious safeguarding risks.

Is it any wonder the younger generation have turned to tiktok for current news.

Note that on some of its news bulletins two days ago, the BBC was putting the story about women who took part in MAFS being raped.

I'd say this story is at least as serious as that, with wider ramifications. Staff at an NHS Hospital knowingly put a woman on a ward with dangerous men. It wasn't even a mistake - it was policy. They actively undermined police attempts to investigate it. This scandal goes way beyond the individual staff member or members who let the woman into the ward - it involves the people who wrote the policy and the management who signed it off, it involves the wider NHS bodies that authorised these types of policy and it involves anyone at the trust who actively sabotaged a police investigation to the extent that an innocent man was nearly sent to prison.

This ought to be a massive scandal at the top of every news bulletin. It ought to damage the NHS in the same way that the Savile scandal damaged the BBC.

And yet here we are, and so far I've seen one report of the story in the media, and that was in the Times.