Apologies if there is already a thread for this. I'm curious as to other trusts policies regarding transgender patients and where they are allocated a bed. Most of the time, our trans patients are nursed in a side room. But recently, I was asked by a senior nurse to ask a trans woman, where they would prefer to be nursed, a male bay, female bay or a side room. I answered, well surely a male bay or side room! The senior nurse told me that we don't judge our patients on their genitals (or words to similar) The patient answered a female bay or a side room. The patient in question had a female name, looked like a man, with male clothing and long unkempt hair. The other patients in the triage bay were referring to this patient as 'he' and 'that young man/boy'. As it was, the patient stayed in the (mixed gender) triage bay till their discharge.
I'm curious as to what other trusts do in this instance (and finding it quite challenging to find my own trust policies).