@KittenKong
I have worked it out now.
My confusion has come from not realising there were 2 separate House of Lords discussions.
In one 9th February Baroness Brinton mentioned Gilly ; and also dismissed cases of rape in hospital and care settings reported by Baroness Nicholson as having been committed by “men not trans women”.
hansard.parliament.uklords/2022-02-09/debates/25504E94-4F01-4282-8EC9-857BE6D94ECC/HealthAndCareBill#contribution-E1DC1451-FBD6-4D9A-A83E-DEAE2BAFBE61
In the other, last Wednesday 16 March, Baroness Nicholson mentioned this case - - -which the thread is about - the woman raped in the hospital, but the hospital then denying there had been a man in the ward to the police.
hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2022-03-16/debates/84C9B6AA-0214-4CEF-A41D-302373BDC190/HealthAndCareBill#contribution-0E3BB87F-8B92-477C-B9BF-6672F71C385D
- Here is what Baroness Brinton said in February about the case which may relate to Gilly; and in which also touched on Baroness Nicholson having mentioned cases where, Baroness Brinton said, men not trans women were the perpetrators:
“My Lords, I will speak against Amendments 297F and 297G, spoken to just now by the noble Baroness, Lady Nicholson. One incident last week explains why they are dangerous and unnecessary. A woman, whom I will not name, was in hospital said the following on Twitter:
“This is incredibly hard to say, and I couldn’t feel more foolish, embarrassed, awkward and dumbfounded as I do now, but it’s been confirmed that the person I believed to be male on the hospital all female bay I was on, was … in fact, a female. This has been 100% verified … I have no words other than how on earth did I mistake a woman for a man? Delicately and with respect I say she was a very emasculated woman and I’m just totally stunned right now at the mistake, my mistake… and am … mortified that I took to Twitter utterly convinced that the woman who looked and sounded like a male, turns out to be quite genuinely a female. I apologise for causing a storm and will take some time off here while I let it sink in. I cannot understand how I got it so wrong … I feel a complete idiot.”
The problem is that these two amendments feed into the conspiracy movement against trans people and prey on vulnerable women such as this who believe that there is a problem. The fear inculcated by the gender-critical movement means that she felt entitled to aggressively call out a complete stranger minding her own business in her own hospital bed, in case she was a trans woman. Yet the reality is that there is absolutely no evidence whatever of trans people causing problems on single-sex wards. All the examples of assault given by the noble Baroness, Lady Nicholson, were by men, not trans women.”
- Here is what Baroness Nicholson said last Wednesday 18 March about the woman this thread is about:
“However, a rather wonderful lady—I cannot say who she is—was raped in hospital by a man about a year ago. There is only one definition of rape in Britain and that is male on female; you cannot rape if you do not have the structure of a male. She was raped and she naturally reported it to the police. The police spoke to the hospital, which informed them that there was no male in the hospital, therefore the rape could not have happened. They forgot that there was CCTV, nurses and observers. None the less, it has taken nearly a year for the hospital to agree that there was a male on the ward and, yes, this rape happened. It is on record—I know where the case happened, who the police are and where the hospital is. I know everything about it because she gave me the full case to make sure I knew that what she was saying was true.
During that year she has almost come to the edge of a nervous breakdown, because being disbelieved about being raped in hospital has been such an appalling shock. The hospital, with all its CCTV, has had to admit that the rape happened and that it was committed by a man. The police have therefore changed their tune and become enormously supportive and helpful, and the case is going ahead. However, this has arisen directly from annexe B. The result of annexe B is that hospital trusts inform ward sisters and nurses that if there is a male, as a trans person, in a female ward, and a female patient or anyone complains, they must be told that it is not true—there is no male there. I refer there to the duty of candour in the National Health Service. I think it is completely wrong that the National Health Service should be instructing or allowing staff to mislead patients—to tell a straightforward lie. It is not acceptable. The National Health Service is admired globally and the duty of candour makes it imperative that it should be frank, open and honest with the patients, yet trust after trust has informed its staff that they must say the opposite of the truth when this situation arises. The impact on my new friend is appalling. I beg to move.”