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NHS bans transwomen from female space

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LadyHelenaThistle · 15/10/2026 14:07

New guidelines out: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/10/15/nhs-bans-trans-women-female-spaces-supreme-court-ruling/

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LadyHelenaThistle · 15/10/2026 14:11

I can’t help wondering how Dr Kate Searle’s “I’m a good person, so I let men change with the women if they’re going to be sad otherwise” defense is going to sound now.

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RareGoalsVerge · 15/10/2026 14:13

Excellent news. That all seems very sensible. Including that hospitals and surgeries should ensure that facilities are available for all staff, so that no one is left without access to suitable and dignified facilities. For trans people, this could include the provision of single occupancy or mixed-sex facilities with individual lockable rooms

This is what it should have been all along. Everyone, including trans people, having access to suitable and dignified facilities. No one, ever, required to share facilities with someone of the opposite sex, regardless of gender identity.

MrsOvertonsWindow · 15/10/2026 14:20

Slowly sanity and safety is being restored to society.

Gotback · 15/10/2026 14:21

Good. It's about time!

WallaceinAnderland · 15/10/2026 14:24

Such a simple and sensible solution. No need for all the angst. How much has been spent on this nonsense over the years I wonder?

LadyHelenaThistle · 15/10/2026 14:26

Waiting to see how and when the BBC, Guardian, and others cover this change - if they do!

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alcovecupboards · 15/10/2026 14:34

Great that this applies to both sexes.

Tallisker · 15/10/2026 14:37

alcovecupboards · 15/10/2026 14:34

Great that this applies to both sexes.

Yes indeed. It should stop another tragedy of that young trans-identifying woman being raped within a very short time of being placed on a men’s ward.

AmazingGrape · 15/10/2026 14:37

Let us always remember that Wes Streeting didn’t manage to get this guidance out before moving on to another job even though he talked about “weeks”. Keep it in mind next time he claims something will happen soon.

LadyHelenaThistle · 15/10/2026 14:42

AmazingGrape · 15/10/2026 14:37

Let us always remember that Wes Streeting didn’t manage to get this guidance out before moving on to another job even though he talked about “weeks”. Keep it in mind next time he claims something will happen soon.

This, along with the excellent news about the Met being forced to reopen their investigation into their mishandling of the Graham Linehan arrest at the behest of a known lunatic, gives hope that eventually the many other balkers will be forced into compliance with the law and reality.

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HermioneWeasley · 15/10/2026 14:44

About fucking time

its disgraceful it has taken 18 months since the SC decision

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ArabellaScott · 15/10/2026 14:48

About FUCKING time.

Shortshriftandlethal · 15/10/2026 14:51

RareGoalsVerge · 15/10/2026 14:13

Excellent news. That all seems very sensible. Including that hospitals and surgeries should ensure that facilities are available for all staff, so that no one is left without access to suitable and dignified facilities. For trans people, this could include the provision of single occupancy or mixed-sex facilities with individual lockable rooms

This is what it should have been all along. Everyone, including trans people, having access to suitable and dignified facilities. No one, ever, required to share facilities with someone of the opposite sex, regardless of gender identity.

I think the wording is a bit ambiguous, myself and may be predicated on a false grasp of the requirements. That could be interpreted as a shared/mixed use corridor with fully lockable rooms off it........which is what venues such as Manchester's Aviva studios have....though they also have shared wash-basins which are not compliant.

I'd say a couple of stand-alone unisex rooms would be adequate to cater to the numbers so 'identified' who might require one - and which is what most smaller venues already have anyway.

Kirschcherries · 15/10/2026 14:51

This is good news.

LadyHelenaThistle · 15/10/2026 14:53

Good quote from Maya in the Mail article:

Maya Forstater, chief executive of sex-based rights charity Sex Matters, said: 'A year and a half ago, the government said NHS England’s new policy would be out within "weeks".

'In that time, female NHS employees have had to fight court battles to keep men out of their changing rooms, while female patients on single-sex wards have suffered the indignity and safety risk of having trans-identifying men accommodated with them.

'Today’s new guidelines for staff facilities and patient accommodation on the basis of biological sex are therefore very welcome, as is the news that NHS England is requiring all trusts to undertake an audit of their facilities and bring them into line with the law.

'While the policies themselves represent a momentous shift back to reality, we are concerned that NHS England has not said how rules based on biological sex will be implemented.

'NHS patient data is a mess, with potentially thousands of trans-identifying people recorded as the opposite sex.
'For years, staff have been fearful of getting into trouble for "misgendering" a trans-identifying person.

'NHS England leaders need to make clear that there will be no more nurses disciplined for calling a man "he", as Jennifer Melle was.

'After a decade of policies based on self-ID and the influence of transactivist campaigners, many NHS trusts have embedded a culture of gender ideology that has pushed staff to treat a claimed transgender identity as if it is a person’s sex.

'NHS England must now follow up with a clear directive to reverse trans ideology within trusts and consider the publication of scenarios or case studies that will empower all staff to speak honestly, and enable regional leadership to stand up to transactivist bullies.'

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Hoppinggreen · 15/10/2026 14:57

Single sex spaces enforced?
Excellent but why was it ever in doubt?

AngleofRepose · 15/10/2026 14:58

Thank you for the thread and the gift link, OP. Many of us have been waiting for this for far too long.

I am glad, however I shall reserve judgement until I see things actually moving in the right direction and with purpose and dedication. Actions not words.

For trans people, this could include the provision of single occupancy or mixed-sex facilities with individual lockable rooms

Be aware that the NHS' next excuse may well be "it's too expensive to provide this, we are doing the best we can, give us more money."

But, yes, this sends a much-needed message to staff and patients that single-sex spaces are required (even if not desired or respected by the NHS).

TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 15/10/2026 15:01

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AngleofRepose · 15/10/2026 15:04

I note also that this guidance comes from NHS England, which is still due to be replaced/scrapped, unless anyone has info to the contrary?

So, NHS England is scrapped, and so are all its policies?? (hopefully not)

And does this apply in Scotland and Wales?

I imagine it wouldn't in NI because they don't have the EA there (although there may be other legislation that covers this).

LadyHelenaThistle · 15/10/2026 15:11

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RoadSign · 15/10/2026 15:12

Good!

StSpiridian · 15/10/2026 15:17

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assume this is still an ongoing problem as men who say they are women can change all their identity docs and medical registration.

Think the NHS and GMC guidelines need to make it clear any male member of staff who IDs as a woman and treats a woman when she has requested a female only for eg intimate care, without consent, is committing sexual assault and will be struck off.

remember this about Bristol?
policyexchange.org.uk/publication/gender-identity-ideology-in-the-nhs/

LadyHelenaThistle · 15/10/2026 15:18

Also, I wonder if this is just coincidence, this person with a GRC having his NHS sex marker reverted to male. Because it would seem if they are committing to separation of patients by sex, everyone needs to know the actual sex of each patient.

https://www.reddit.com/r/transgenderUK/comments/1x6maao/nhs_record_reverted_back/

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