However, I can imagine a few reasons- I was wondering if you could imagine any? One reason I can imagine is around “outing”- requiring trans women to out themselves to all each time they use facilities could be a violation of their privacy, compromise their safety, and reinforce stigma and social ostricisatjon for example
Re being "outed", we are talking about nurses here. The people who look after patients yes?
A relative of mine is in her 80s and has a gynaecological cancer for which she is currently receiving radiotherapy treatment.
She goes to the hospital five days a week and she has to strip off below the waist for the treatment to take place.
If on occasion the person administering the treatment happens to be male they have assured her that she can request a female instead.
So how does this work if the person is trans and the most terrible thing is being "outed"?