NHS bans transwomen from female space

Also, for the record, it has been found that for men who want to rape, removal of the penis actually makes the men more violent and more likely to do life-limiting damage with whatever they use as an implement to rape instead of the penis that they no longer have.

NO MEN IN WOMEN’S SPACES.

Of course they should - they're men. Cutting off a part (any part) of your anatomy doesn't alter your sex.

The fact that men get raped doesn't mean women should have to budge up. It's also important to remember that there are far higher rates of sexual offences in the TIM population (either or without their penises) compared to men in both the male prison estate and the wider population.

One webpage of guidance, unless I'm missing something, has taken 18 months to publish.

ps. the guidance seems to be only for staff facilities?

Is there other guidance for service users/patients?

Hmmm. Cue, I suspect, for all the "womens services" that are trans-inclusive to just need to put some smallprint on the bottom of any leaflet/poster/website saying "this is not a single-sex service under the Equality Act 2010 and both male and female people may be in attendance" which will allow some things like e.g. group therapies to continue as they are unchanged.

Which will at least be honest, and they won't be able to claim that they are offering single-sex services, but it could be a whole different fight to get single-sex services provided when they are needed.

I agree with you this will need to be tested in court.

So this guidance is about single-sex NHS staff facilities - like the changing rooms - but the news articles are about single-sex patient spaces? Are two sets of guidance out today?

Yes, thanks, OP, was just wondering that myself.

Article says Telegraph has seen two sets of guidance, one for staff and one for patients. Maybe they will be publishing the patient one next?

All the way where? Maybe they need a Eunach policy? Because there is NO such thing as 'Reassignment'. Just 'chopping your dick off'.

Interesting the guidance makes mention of the Gender Recognition Act (which started a lot of attempts by trans extremists to remove the human rights of women and children in the 1st place).

In the GRA, section 12, it confirms men remain fathers whatever their GI beliefs or GRC status, and women remain mothers, whatever their GI beliefs or GRC status. So if you're a woman and give birth but have a GRC lying you're a man, you are still the mother of the baby.

This is important as abusive trans extremists have tried to coerce NHS Trusts and eg maternity staff to refer to a mum who says she's a man as a father/ dad. This is illegal and absue of the child. None of the NHS safeguarding teams have called it out or disciplined staff who harm and abuse children of transpeople in this way.

This has now gone through the courts - UK (judgement link childrenoftransitioners.org/six-children/ ) ECHR (June 2026 judgement https://www.matrixlaw.co.uk/news/challenge-to-registration-of-transgender-man-as-mother-declared-inadmissible/ ).

Lying about who a child's the mother/ father is has been found to be in breach of the child's human rights (and the UK Supreme Court found it to be emotional abuse of the child (in breach of the Children Act protecting children from abuse as well as the GRA) .

So I really hope NHS Trusts and child safeguarding teams start protecting the children involved.
Links here:
https://www.matrixlaw.co.uk/news/challenge-to-registration-of-transgender-man-as-mother-declared-inadmissible/
and
https://childrenoftransitioners.org/six-children/

Lol, I was going to write something along the lines of "chopping it off" but I thought gender re-assignment sounded a bit more formal. Yes you can't re-assign your gender.

I agree what happens to certain men shouldn't be made a problem for women to have to deal with.

@LadyHelenaThistle, re the guidance only being for staff, that’s correct. I’ve been scouring the NHSE publications site and it appears this is the only document published today. The press conference did talk about patient accommodation too, so I would have expected guidance on that too. Not sure what the holdup is.

About bloody time. Let's hope it's properly enforced.

The NHS is devolved, so not necessarily. Let's wait and see what Swinney says and does in response to this.

Aaand here goes the BBC.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cry83dyddv6no

Disappointed to see this is just for staff. Surely it's just as or more important that patients have the right to single sex wards and other spaces?

I just checked NHS England publications. Looks like the patient/service user guidance has not been published yet.

edited for spelling

Sorry, quoted the wrong post.

That should have been in reply to @LadyHelenaThistle post from 16:38

Don't need a fully functioning penis to sexually assault anybody and a set of silicone implants doesn't change that.

Well, I'm speechless. I never thought I'd live to see the day that the NHS actually agreed with biological sex!

Well I am afraid that they are going to have to campaign for separate spaces everywhere.

It all moved too fast and the rapid gaining of trans rights which rode rough shod over women's rights happened by stealth while women were blinded by feeling that they had to be kind.

We have now woken up and are fighting to regain our rights. Quite frankly I don't think we have either the time nor the inclination to fight for transwomen's rights as well.

Good news. Disgracefully overdue but I'm choosing to be happy about it.

Possibly, but not showing up in most recent list of NHS England publications.

It would be helpful if they put a date on this one (actually in the text).

Will have a read.