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

I’ve started a thread in AIBU, nicked the links in this OP, apologies.

They’re clearly not answering their phones, because it’s not anywhere to be found on the BBC website yet.

Tbf nobody should be getting raped in hospitals anyway. Even on a mixed sex ward. But I do think all the trans stuff is bonkers and healthcare is one of the areas where biological sex matters the most.

Because no matter what the issue, it’s vital to hear what men who pretend to be women have to say. Didn’t you know? 🙄😡

Shame. Shame on any so called medical professional who lacks the moral backbone or integrity to take a stand where a patient is being endangered. There’s strength in numbers - if enough staff have the courage and decency to speak up things may change.

I so hope some investigative journalist picks up on this, though I don’t hold out much of said hope.

It is clear from the 'Care and Support of Transgender and Non Binary People' document that, firstly, they absolutely knew that they were posing a danger to women and, secondly, that they felt they had legal approval from the Trust's solicitors for their policy.

I sincerely hope all staff complicit in this girls rape are prosecuted.

This is horrific. Talk about the loonies taking over the asylum. This will never happen they said. No safeguarding anywhere and then lies and coverups. Shameful.

Having worked on NHS psych wards in the 90’s and 2000’s, the idea that “ We were following NHS policy" could ever be used to justify placing a biological female in a male only psych ward is absurd, seeing as staff members face the risk of being attacked never mind other patients. As a female staff member, I at least had the advantage of training and an alarm . We also used to separate by sex because a biological woman( or man) needing admission may be sexually disinhibited or classed as unable to consent due to their vulnerability , even if the man was presuming it to be a consensual situation , so it protects both men and women in that situation. CQC report from 2018 https://www.cqc.org.uk/publications/major-report/sexual-safety-mental-health-wards . And in 2024 https://rapecrisis.org.uk/news/alarming-scale-of-sexual-violence-and-abuse-on-mental-health-wards/

The whole nhs is corrupt. By those at the top. And the middle trying to get to the top.

It's just horrible. Skimming through the policy Knotty linked to (first item: definition of 'cis' 🙄), this misogynistic shite is our tax dollars at work, as the Americans say? When the NHS is already on its knees?

He's too busy laughingly telling NHSE and DHSC colleagues that his favourite film is Clueless.

Let’s be clear - this is some staff
Not all - many are unhappy but fearful for their jobs so keep quiet. It’s a horrible culture and not one that suggests staff are well placed to care for anyone - you can’t give what you’re not getting springs to mind…

This!
South London and Maudsley is the NHS Trust - SLAM for short.
Their policies were some of the worst I read across the whole of the UK

Here is the link for the historic policies (which will apply to this horrible case) if anyone is interested:
www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/gender_reassignment_andor_transg_67#incoming-2669171

Having to read the policies one after another, I began to feel rather ill. The misogyny dripped off the page - it was horrible. I'm usually as sort of battle-axe kind of character but one morning I ended up bursting into tears having had to absorb it all. And I don't even work in the NHS?! It was ridiculous but I just couldn't get over how much they must hate women to write all this crap down

causing a person to be arrested or to fall under suspicion is first on the list

The NHS have covered four more on that list Henrietta, there absolutely has to be a prosecution in this case, let's see if the Police, CPS, Health Secretary are going to call for one.

Yep - but now that they admit they can administer a policy based on sex no problem for males…. Slippery slope….

From the CPS:

Some examples of what may amount to a charge of perverting the course of justice include:

• causing a person to be arrested or to fall under suspicion;
• materially affecting proceedings e.g. obtaining bail when it might not have been obtained, receiving a sentence which might not otherwise have been passed;
• persuading, or attempting to persuade, by intimidation, harm or otherwise, a witness not to give evidence, to alter their evidence or to give false evidence
• interference with jurors with a view to influencing their verdict;
• false alibis and interference with evidence or exhibits;
• giving false information, or agreeing to give false information, to the police with a view to frustrating a police inquiry; for example, lying as to who was driving when a road traffic accident occurred;
• lending a driving licence to another to produce to the police following a notice to produce, thereby avoiding an offence of driving whilst disqualified being discovered;
• agreeing to give false evidence;
• concealing or destroying evidence or providing a false alibi;
• assisting others to evade arrest for a significant period of time.

https://www.cps.gov.uk/prosecution-guidance/public-justice-offences

causing a person to be arrested or to fall under suspicion is first on the list

They knew exactly what would happen when they put a woman in a ward full of men. They can’t possibly not have known. So these staff - people we trust to look after the most vulnerable - knowingly facilitated the rape of a young woman. Not only that, they then wilfully obstructed the efforts of the police to investigate it.

Despite the number of women working in and using the NHS there is deep seated, utterly damaging misogyny running rife within it.

The number and frequency of scandals surrounding women's health, particularly in maternity, speaks volumes.

Now the NHS is facilitating rape by their slavish adherence to gender ideology and covering it up.

There are serious problems within this institution.

Just when think they can't get any worse, another NHS Trust says, hold my beer. Absolutely appalling, and should surely mean jail time for some at that hospital.