Well this was totally predictable

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Woman identifying as a man is 'raped in all-male psychiatric ward' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15461027/Transgender-man-raped-male-psychiatric-hospital-ward-court-hears.html?ito=native_share_article-bottom

Shame on these men and shame on the NHS for placing this poor women directly in the hands of predators.

They certainly wouldn't be 'kind'.

How does this policy decide where a non-binary person wearing trousers should go? Or an agender person?

You would hope that a hospital would have her correct sex details before admission.

Non binary get to decide themselves where they go

How many women will be raped before this insane ideology is stopped?
How many children mutilated in it's name?

That would be logical - so no they don’t. Only ‘gender’

That is not equally a possibility. What the fuck?

And a woman deeply involved in high level safeguarding, no less. Jeezo.

Oh FFS. I could weep for the poor woman. I’m so angry at the craven stupidity of whoever decided to put a female in an all male wing. Utterly unacceptable.

Why have single sex wards at all if they think it's all about dress code?

(Errr sorry for the blunt langauge)

• if a medical professional who needs to be extra observant in their chosen specialisation can not pick a woman out in a room of men then they need to fuck off and find another field to work in.

• each shift should do a hand off to the next one so I am not buying into the idea that the fact she was female and IDed as trans was lost in the computer says so and somehow some staff knew and some did not

Absolutely!

She is five feet tall 😔

It's a testament to quite how mad this fucking ideology is, that everyone is scrabbling around trying to find at least a semblance of reason for how this can happen.

And in the same vein, I absolutely cannot fucking believe that the people responsible aren't being held accountable.

Let's hope there's an investigation that we just don't know about. Yet.

That looks like the prosecuting barrister. They are not her lawyer, they act for the Crown and she would be the witness in the criminal case and not entitled to her own representation.

Yep the NHS is so far down the rabbit hole that they fail to warn/protect the staff member by clearly instructing them on what is required if they were told that the patient said she/he did not give permission to be touched by someone of their sex.

The staff member is open to possible criminal charges and loss of professional certification and liable to incur financial loss but faced with doing their job management opted to sign off blank paper.

The staff are instructed to lie to patients who notice the other sex in what should be single sex area and has a policy in place which enables the patient to be harrassed for noticing.

This was the data on sexual misconduct in the NHS 2 years ago:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-65671018

Yet the NHS is still focused on removing single sex spaces and accurate sex based language for healthcare - "being kind" while enabling rape, indecent exposure and flashing.

If this woman wants to sue the NHS for locking her up on a male psych ward, I'm sure there are hundreds of us who would be happy to contribute to a crowd fund.

We have to find a way to stop anything like this happening again.

The health and safety executive should be involved.

No it would not help.

And the medical staff who will take the stand will also have to use male words too.

The decision makers in the hospital will (I assume) not be required to explain the policy which resulted in her being placed on a male ward with no additional safeguarding.

It can be that it is a blanket policy of the paper so as not to risk being held in contempt of court?

Most sexual crimes trials can have legal rules and court orders which restrict what can be reported or published. But I guess they did not want to be invited into court to explain.

You may have missed fact that when the State removes your rights and liberty they have a matching obligation to step in and take measures to ensure your safety?

Its a not such difficult a concept to grasp if you apply a limited amount of brain power to why rights and responsibilities are important.

I wonder what the average height of TIFs is compared to other women. I would not be surprised if the average TIF were shorter than the average woman.