Submitted Avon and Wiltshire Partnership (a mental health trust).
There wasn't much available on the website but thanks to Ermine I was able to find the local "Supporting Trans People Toolkit" which the then-CCG had commissioned from a local anti-discrimination organisation called SARI.
“The organisation Stand Against Racism and Inequality (SARI) was commissioned to produce the toolkit, working in close partnership with a range of transgender people, clinicians and stakeholders from across the South West who comprise the document’s working group.
The group have reported that in producing the toolkit, multiple organisations including mental health, learning and disability hospitals, acute hospital trusts, voluntary organisation, LGBT+ organisation and support groups, equalities specialists and a housing support organisation had either been consulted, written a section of the document or reviewed the draft.” (Quote from CCG Equality Impact Assessment)
Following the CCG "adopting" this toolkit there was what seems to have been an outcry from concerned clinicians, women's groups and members of the public due to the wording of the toolkit, the lack of statistics to back up the claims made in the toolkit and the negative impact on other protected characteristics. The clinicians wrote an excellent letter to the CCG which I have uploaded to the Jotform. The CCG had to backtrack and hold two meetings, one with the clinicians and one with the women's groups/members of the public, following which they issued an equality impact assessment at CCG level stating negative impacts on the protected characteristics of age, religion/belief, disability and sex. They said that 13 areas of the toolkit needed to be revised and rewritten before it could be re-approved by the CCG. The equality impact assessment was difficult to find - it was not released to Ermine but once I knew it was available through the CCG/ICB I was able to find it in the archives
The revised toolkit still contains paragraphs such as:
"Providing education to other service users in a ward to
prevent ignorant or transphobic comments is, if successful,
a better solution than having to protect or isolate the trans
service user, but please note that disclosing that someone is
transgender without their consent may be unlawful. Always
seek further advice if you are unsure about information
sharing."
but they did remove a comment relating to young people reporting gender dysphoria - which urged assessment/treatment/referral/affirmation rather than watchful waiting, because "Doing Nothing CAUSES HARM" (in capital letters)
The toolkit is not an official Trust policy but it seems to be treated as such and was stated in the FoI response as being part of the transgender patient policy/single sex accommodation policy