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.

North East London NHS Foundation Trust

Supporting service users who identify as Transgender, non binary and other gender identities Policy P7 “Trans women and risk: Trans women face significantly more abuse than trans men as they are unfairly judged as deceptive, inauthentic and a threat to non-trans women. Data suggests that trans women are far more likely to be the victims of violent crime and assault than to be perpetrator of these crimes. Statistically, non- trans women are far more likely to be harmed by non-trans (cisgender) men in any spaces, compared to being harmed by a trans person. Therefore, it is clear that the safety of the trans woman patient must be carefully considered when supporting them in gendered wards and spaces within NELFT services.

This is just crazy 🤯

Incredible resource – thank you. I never cease to be amazed at the wonderful people brought together by this forum and the fantastic things they achieve. The results are, not surprisingly, horrific, as are the stories on this thread of NHS misogyny at times when women are at their most vulnerable.

@ElenOfTheWays mine, Calderdale & Huddersfield is almost identical. Shocking isn’t it?

Interestingly, Bradford Teaching Hospitals, the next trust north and our larger trust for major conditions and surgery, is more palatable, and doesn’t say the trust will bow down at the trans altar and sacrifice their female patients to larping men.

TRANS EQUALITY POLICY STAFF AND PATIENTS P24 "Accommodating Trans people in line with their preferred gender is not optional and must be the starting point of any interaction with a Trans person. Clinical responses should be patient centred, respectful and flexible towards all Trans people regardless of whether they live continuously or temporarily in the gender role that is opposite to their natal sex.”

I don’t think anyone objects to a trans person being treated well, Bradford’s response doesn’t read to me that any trans person will get exactly what they want without consideration being given to the rest of the patients. Hopefully it means, we will treat you with respect and flexibility but you will get a side room and won’t share with people that don’t want to share with you!

Edited to add thanks to all those that produced this fabulous piece of work.

Absolutely brilliant work @Erebor
We all found and processed the documents- hundreds of them all in dry folders and summary tables… very difficult to access… but
You did the magic bit of pulling it all together so anyone can dip in! Thank you!

Oh tgat area is a corker the EqIA at the end of that policy is worth a look - it refers to the nasty Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists in a negative way. I’ll have to dig that out.

Many of the London ones are eye poppers 😳😳😳

@SexIsNotNebulous 👋 one of the auditors/ data wranglers here

I’m afraid Bradford Teaching Hospitals most definitely bows to the trans altar. It’s indicated by the first line you quote but download the full policy if you want to see more

“Accommodating Trans people in line with their gender is not optional and must be the starting point of any interaction with a Trans person.”

Pleased to see this headlining on GMB this morning. Well done all.

@Cantunseeit got there before me but just to add that this policy [and many others] clearly puts the interests of trans identifying people ahead of everyone else. The Equality Impact Assessments underline this by assuming that their trans policies can only be positive for all protected characteristics. I don't think we found a single one that could be described as adequate out of hundreds that we read.

@KnottyAuty 👏👏 coverage in the Daily Mail (although they claim the analysis for their own, it is indeed ours)

@Knottyhas done phenomenal work wrangling the media around this. Really impressive the amount of coverage she’s secured since the audit began

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15737027/Labour-Single-sex-space-ruling-ignored-public-bodies.html

Thank you so much for all your hard work. Truly magnificent!!

Absolutely phenomenal work - thank you to everyone involved

Amazing! I hope it’s widely used to smashes down all those misogynistic barriers to treatment.

Thank you for this!

Here's what our hospital says:

Delivering Same-Sex Accommodation Policy P8 “Trans people should be accommodated according to their presentation: the way they dress, and the name and pronouns they currently use.”

And they're affiliated with Stonewall...

Thanks to all for this. I especially like that on the interactive map if you click on a Trust then a particularly egregious example from the DEI policy is displayed. In the case of my local Trust it's

Delivering Same Sex Accommodation P12 "Those who have undergone transition should be accommodated according to their gender presentation. Different genital or breast sex appearance is not a bar to this,..."

How enraging I have just read this for one of them.
After saying that it is up to the ‘trans’ person ( trans as defined by clothes, name, pronoun, nothing official, full genitalia possible) their guideline is:

Where other patients object to being in a bay with a trans person, quiet discussion about equality legislation and Trust policies will usually resolve the issue.

It seems those running the hospital who wrote this are the ones needing a discussion about equality legislation.

No wonder Sandie Peggie and the Darlington Nurses were so trammelled.

Good Morning Britain are covering this extensively today

Amazing work all, thank you!!

I would like to write to my trust, is there a template / guidance on how best to approach this at all?

I'm in the middle of a stupid work project that's keeping me awake at night and I simply don't have the brain power I'd like to be able to address the issues responsibly and without calling them a shower of shite.

Oh! I had no idea you were on here! Thank you for your absolutely key work in creating the map from our data - it is a joy to look at!

Yes, there absolutely is. Click through to template letters to NHS trusts and your MP from

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

Thank you and all the others for what you have done, absolutely epic! I hope all the press attention gets things moving in the right direction.

Yes, thank you all.

💐💐To the amazing @KnottyAuty and the team.

Thank you for all your work and dedication. You are making a difference.

"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."

They really have no idea...

I agree with the other posters who have already commented that this shows they are very much on board with the trans agenda, but this bit:

Clinical responses should be patient centred, respectful and flexible towards all Trans people regardless of whether they live continuously or temporarily in the gender role that is opposite to their natal sex.

They seem to be saying that this includes part time crossdressers.