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Legal action launched after NHS Trust allowed bearded male patients who identify as women onto female psychiatric wards

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RoseInAPot · 10/09/2026 11:23

https://christianconcern.com/ccpressreleases/legal-action-launched-after-nhs-trust-allowed-bearded-male-patients-who-identify-as-women-onto-female-psychiatric-wards/

This is particularly shocking;

"Dr A argues that women receiving inpatient psychiatric treatment are among the most vulnerable patients in the healthcare system.
Dr A was also concerned that biologically male staff members, who identify as women, could be put forward to provide intimate same sex care to female patients, if they hadn’t already.
For example, a female patient who was deemed to be a risk to herself would likely be supervised in the shower whilst using a razor to shave her legs.
When Dr A raised this scenario with the EDI team , she was told that the female inpatient would have to justify why she wanted same sex intimate care, for example citing a history of sexual abuse, and the nurse in charge would have to decide if her argument was good enough.
During this conversation, Dr A was also told that there were no plans for this scenario to be addressed in any policy. Dr A alleges that her concerns around legitimate same sex care were dismissed as being hypothetical and not worthy of further institutional consideration."

Legal action launched after NHS Trust allowed bearded male patients who identify as women onto female psychiatric wards - Christian Concern

An NHS Trust in the north of England faces legal action from a senior doctor and consultant psychiatrist who alleges that it dismissed serious safeguarding concerns about bearded male patients who identify as women being admitted to female psychiatric...

https://christianconcern.com/ccpressreleases/legal-action-launched-after-nhs-trust-allowed-bearded-male-patients-who-identify-as-women-onto-female-psychiatric-wards/

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TheEighthDwarf · 10/09/2026 23:47

Thank you. I should have read the article more carefully.

mrshoho · 10/09/2026 23:00

MrsOvertonsWindow · 10/09/2026 12:24

And thank you to Dr A who has no doubt put her career on the line in order to expose these predatory NHS staff.

Hear hear! What a brave dr 👏 xx Thank you Dr A.

ArabellaScott · 10/09/2026 22:54

selffellatingouroborosofhate · 10/09/2026 20:39

“Female psychiatric patients are among the most vulnerable people in our healthcare system. They are detained in these wards, many have experienced violence, abuse or trauma.

“As a senior doctor, I could not remain silent while women’s privacy and dignity were being compromised.”

Thank you, Dr A.

Yes.

Dear god, what the fuck has happened to society.

ArabellaScott · 10/09/2026 22:51

MrsOvertonsWindow · 10/09/2026 12:24

And thank you to Dr A who has no doubt put her career on the line in order to expose these predatory NHS staff.

❤

MarcTheGenderSkeptic · 10/09/2026 22:05

Igmum · 10/09/2026 20:50

I know Marc, I know - it’s the whistleblowers who pay the price but oh I wish we could challenge this wilful woke wastefulness. I’m absolutely livid about it.

A few of my clients are lawyers and barristers, I talk to them about this. I keep asking why law isn't "settled", objective and transparent.
They tell me that case law is constantly challenged, and only when a long term consensus of verdicts forms does everything fall into line.
We're apparently not at this stage yet, there have to be more cases yet to stabilize the temperature.
Which means, yes, women have to constantly be compromised, constantly have to go to court to seek clarity, be taken to court by the NHS etc to keep finding loopholes and exceptions.

NameyMcNew · 10/09/2026 21:40

TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 10/09/2026 21:23

It was the patient that exposed themselves not a member of staff.

Thanks - clearly I had a huge brain fart and read it entirely wrong. I reported my post and it’s been deleted.

TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 10/09/2026 21:23

It was the patient that exposed themselves not a member of staff.

NameyMcNew · 10/09/2026 20:56

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Igmum · 10/09/2026 20:50

I know Marc, I know - it’s the whistleblowers who pay the price but oh I wish we could challenge this wilful woke wastefulness. I’m absolutely livid about it.

MarcTheGenderSkeptic · 10/09/2026 20:44

Igmum · 10/09/2026 20:31

Thank you Dr A.

And I assume, from the fact that this is a case, that the senior management have allocated a few hundred thousand so desperately needed by those with mental health problems to defending this in a court of law. They know it’s illegal but they’re going to use my taxes to fight every last ditch. I hope that they, together with whoever sent that man back to the women’s ward, can be held personally liable for their decisions and barred from ever working in the NHS again.

Of course that won't happen. They won't even lose their jobs, or be demoted. The only area of lawbreaking where those that are guilty get lauded as being kind, on the right side of history, obstructing punching down.

selffellatingouroborosofhate · 10/09/2026 20:39

“Female psychiatric patients are among the most vulnerable people in our healthcare system. They are detained in these wards, many have experienced violence, abuse or trauma.

“As a senior doctor, I could not remain silent while women’s privacy and dignity were being compromised.”

Thank you, Dr A.

Igmum · 10/09/2026 20:31

Thank you Dr A.

And I assume, from the fact that this is a case, that the senior management have allocated a few hundred thousand so desperately needed by those with mental health problems to defending this in a court of law. They know it’s illegal but they’re going to use my taxes to fight every last ditch. I hope that they, together with whoever sent that man back to the women’s ward, can be held personally liable for their decisions and barred from ever working in the NHS again.

alteredimage · 10/09/2026 20:09

Thank you Dr A.

In case the Times share token runs out, here is the Mail version.

mol.im/a/16120687

Ereshkigalangcleg · 10/09/2026 18:41

iwishitwouldstartraining · 10/09/2026 15:55

When Dr A raised this scenario with the equality, diversity and inclusion team, she claimed she was told that the female inpatient would have to advocate for herself to justify why she wanted same-sex intimate care and the nurse in charge would have to decide if her argument was valid.

“I said that’s nonsense because the person is most likely to be psychotic and then there’s the power differential and potentially the education differential,” the psychiatrist said.”

Confused

As much as anything else, this raises huge concerns about the way psychiatric wards are run.

It really does. Appalling.

storminabuttercup · 10/09/2026 18:30

But they just want to be accepted, pee in peace, etc etc. Bollocks. Quite literally!

good on the Dr for advocating those vulnerable women

selffellatingouroborosofhate · 10/09/2026 17:33

Wishesandhorses · 10/09/2026 17:17

Sadistic really nails it. Awful, awful people.

https://erikengdahl.se/autism/isnt/dsn-staff.html

The "mourning has broken" link on that page should come with a trigger warning for rape, once you've gone to the earliest archive.org version to see the actual article.

Institute for the Study of the Neurologically Typical

https://erikengdahl.se/autism/isnt/dsn-staff.html

CornishDaughteroftheDawn · 10/09/2026 17:27

I can’t sufficiently express my contempt and disgust at the staff that have driven these rules and policies into the NHS.

I hope that criminal prosecutions against them may be viable in the future. They certainly should be nowhere near the NHS or any organisation with a responsibility to care for vulnerable people.

JoyousAsOtters · 10/09/2026 17:18

Was just coming to see if there was a thread yet. Share token:

’Bearded trans patient on women’s psychiatric ward exposed himself’.

https://www.thetimes.com/article/2d7d94d0-2c78-46a8-88fb-7b0998cde18d?shareToken=5654d1f37fd9343239d43bcae6d38a95

Wishesandhorses · 10/09/2026 17:17

MrsOvertonsWindow · 10/09/2026 12:23

Yet senior NHS staff see no problem with that? They must have a really unpleasant, sadistic mindset to make those decisions.
Hopefully some of them will be appearing in a court having to explain why they're so determined that flashers and voyeurs must have access to vulnerable mentally unwell women. 😡

Sadistic really nails it. Awful, awful people.

FarriersGirl · 10/09/2026 17:04

As much as anything else, this raises huge concerns about the way psychiatric wards are run.

Indeed, my DSis who was a MH professional for over 30 years [and GC] would agree with you.

borntobequiet · 10/09/2026 16:47

MrsOvertonsWindow · 10/09/2026 12:24

And thank you to Dr A who has no doubt put her career on the line in order to expose these predatory NHS staff.

An absolute heroine.

MsGreying · 10/09/2026 16:30

Jesus wept.

Thank god there is some sanity. Not enough yet.

BridgetYourFortyDaysAreUp · 10/09/2026 16:07

AimsAndObjectives · 10/09/2026 16:01

Our CEO, Chris Oliver

Oliver was appointed in May this year. I wonder if he is the sort of gay man who respects women, or is he a 'queer' man, who might prioritise the TQ+ over safeguarding female patients?

Or, indeed, if he is actually a man at all! Or, actually gay? Or, an actual CEO, as opposed to a self-identified CEO?

See how this works...? (Hey, GMMH, I can be ridiculous as well!)

MrsOvertonsWindow · 10/09/2026 16:07

AimsAndObjectives · 10/09/2026 16:01

Our CEO, Chris Oliver

Oliver was appointed in May this year. I wonder if he is the sort of gay man who respects women, or is he a 'queer' man, who might prioritise the TQ+ over safeguarding female patients?

Let's hope he gets to tell us via the courts

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