NHS mental health hospitals are allowing male criminals to self-identify as women, NHS documents have revealed.
Trusts in London are permitting transgender women to use female-only spaces despite acknowledging their presence as a “risk to a particular gender” and potentially “very distressing for other patients on a single-sex ward”.
Campaigners have accused the NHS of endangering the welfare of the “most vulnerable women” by allowing transgender women, who were born male, on female wards.
A women’s rights group used Freedom of Information (FoI) requests to obtain sex and gender policies at NHS mental health trusts in London.
The recently disclosed documents found mental health trusts raising concerns over the guidance that forensic patients should use single-sex female spaces if they identified as women.
Forensic patients are those referred to the NHS from court or prison for committing offences, or considered a potential risk to themselves or others because of a mental health disorder.
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