SEENinHealth Interactive Map of (unlawful) NHS single sex and trans self ID policies for whole of UK - check out your Trust and find template letters to call for the return of lawfulness to the NHS!

[KnottyAuty]

Very proud to announce that SEENinHealth has published an interactive policy map on their website here:

https://seeninhealth.org/nhs-foi-map/

This is a huge milestone for the fabulous 40 or so mumsnetters who worked together to audit these NHS policies last year and "keep the receipts" which form the basis for this map. SEENinHealth have passed on their thanks to you all!

It is thought that there have been no single sex spaces in the NHS since 2009 despite public declarations to the contrary. The gender self ID policies on this map were in force in 2024-2025 and we found no evidence of any protected single sex spaces for staff or patients across the UK - over 300 Trusts!

We have been doing a follow up sample of FOI searches this month. The results are coming in but so far no Trusts have updated to lawful single sex spaces yet - all are waiting for EHRC guidance... the map will be updated in due course.

Please do use this data to help hold your elected representatives and NHS Trusts to account. And share with others. Sample letters and contact details are linked from the map page to make it easy to request that your Trust complies with the law.

SEENinHealth will be launching the map officially tomorrow so any help boosting their social media posts would be great thank you.

Thank you Seen in Health for creating this resource.

Technically SEEN in Health are hosting it. The creator was @KnottyAuty, with help from very hard working auditors.

Thank you, @KnottyAuty.🙏🏼

Bumping as this looks great and hopefully will be very useful to people wanting to take action, especially those who don't have much spare time to do it! Thank you!

That's an amazing resource from an amazing MNetter and team, KA - thank you.

Thank you 🙏

Thank you so much Knotty, and to everyone who helped ❤️

Speaking of which, thank you to all the auditors (I hope I have you all -- apologies if I have missed anyone):

@ThatPithySheep, @SternlyMatthews, @FarriersGirl, @umbel, @Chrysanthemum5, @ArabellaScott, @WithSilverBells, @YellowRoom, @SqueakyDinosaur, @Towanda12, @CarefulN0w, @Bannedontherun, @teawamutu, @thenoisiesttermagant, @Cantunseeit, @oviraptor21, @MadameBethune, @FafferTea, @mrshoho, @Rightsraptor, @Blackmetallic, @Rosebud21, @Iheartmysmart, @NeedMoreTinfoil, @ExDerryGirl, @Theeyeballsinthesky, @Mipe, @Bluebootsgreenboots, @Opinionpolecat, @Feedbackprovider, @LadyElaine, @GreenAllOver, @BeLemonHam, @Harassedevictee, @SeaStoat, @ShockedandStunnedRepeatedly, @nothingcomestonothing, @Bunpea, @Shortshriftandlethal, and @selffellatingouroborosofhate

Please take a collective bow for your stellar service.

Thank you all!

what an incredible piece of work!

Well of course, thanks to all for doing the work.

Who knew collectives were still a positive way of working!

Not the Labour Party, obviously! Great work from Mumsnetters here, a brilliant, if depressing, resource.

Amazing collaborative project from @KnottyAuty and this group of mumsnetters.

Thank you to all. Horrifying results but useful.

I guess you could pick any trust, and it'll be awful. I had a quick look at mine and my DS's. Mine was particularly awful:

SOP: Supporting Transgender Staff P4 IN MANAGER'S CHECKLIST "8.3.7
Agreeing the point at which the individual will commence using single sex facilities in their new gender (such as toilets." p6 "Where locker or shower facilities are open plan then it is good practice to review this, and, at the least, provide some provision (e.g. curtained spaces) where staff need not be in a state of undress in the presence of others. If it is genuinely impossible to to adapt locker or shower facilities in order to accommodate a pre-operative member of staff in a state of undress then this is one very limited example of an instance where the law permits the employer to make separate arrangements. It is highly unlikely that the employee concerned would object to this pre-operatively." p6 "It is also important to appreciate that if anyone is likely to feel vulnerable in the toilet then it will most likely be the trans person - being acutely aware of the incongruity of their anatomy and certainly not wishing to draw any attention to this."

No information about single-sex spaces on trust website

Thank you, thank you all for your hard work.

The NHS is sadly a national disgrace rather than a treasure with their determination to remove safety for women and girls along with today's much publicised medical misogyny and the abysmal track record on dangerous, harmful maternity services.

news.sky.com/story/nhs-failing-women-and-girls-and-has-appalling-culture-of-medical-misogyny-health-secretary-says-13531932

It’s just so bloody depressing isn’t it. This is what it says about my local Trust:

Supporting Trans Patients Policy P9 "Refusing to use a name, pronouns, or gender which the patient recognises or asking intrusive questions about a patient’s trans status when not relevant or pertinent to treatment is a form of harassment and a form of discrimination. If this is malicious in intent, this may be considered as a hate crime."

Their piss poor care contributed to the early death of both my grandmothers and their treatment of my mum has been appalling on occasions. Including having her semi naked on a bed whilst multiple staff traipsed in and out, leaving the door wide open so people in the waiting area could see straight in. I eventually had to go in and tell them to treat my mum with the privacy and dignity she deserved.

Words cannot describe how much I loathe the place.

I hardly did anything but appreciate the name check.

To @KnottyAuty and everyone who contributed a huge thank you. The website looks fantastic and provides clear and unambiguous evidence of the NHS’ betrayal of women, their female employees and female patients. I hope Wes Streeting takes notice.

If it is genuinely impossible to to adapt locker or shower facilities in order to accommodate a pre-operative member of staff in a state of undress then this is one very limited example of an instance where the law permits the employer to make separate arrangements. It is highly unlikely that the employee concerned would object to this pre-operatively."

Tell that to Dr Upton!!

Thank you to KA and all the contributors - activism with a practical purpose, resulting in a valuable resource - admired and appreciated👏

There is obviously only one employee here that they are concerned about ...

It's the tone of the whole bloody thing, though, isn't it? Obviously others are much the same.

Thank you for your service 🫡

Regular name changer here who wrote the code for the map. That's just the icing on the cake of all the hard work put in by the mumsnetters doing the FOIs, trawling through documents, creating spreadsheets and, perhaps most importantly, archiving everything so the NHS Trusts can't delete the documents and pretend this never happened.

Awesome work.

I bloody love a good archive.

This is what mine says. I'm actually horrified.