NHS updating guidance on single-sex hospital accommodation after EHRC release

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The NHS has announced it is updating it's guidance in light of the EHRC guidance being released. The new guidance will be called Privacy, dignity and safety in hospital accommodation. Here's hoping this is the beginning of the end of male patients in female hospital wards and male staff in female changing rooms and toilets.

Lucky you! Apparently that was not the case for many others according to the Hansard record from 1995

NHS England is updating its guidance on “Delivering same sex accommodation”, which will now be titled “Privacy, dignity and safety in hospital accommodation”, to ensure it aligns with the Code.

The original title aligns better with the Supreme Court judgment (though the content certainly didn't - see the appalling "Annex B: Delivering same- sex accommodation for trans people and gender variant children" in the original guidance document https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/delivering-same-sex-accommodation/).

I expect a lot more word salad in the updated guidance.

At the time I didn't realise how blessed I was; just felt aggrieved because the payphone was on the ground floor, which was two flights of stairs away, so telling my family what was going on was difficult and painful. I didn't see why men should have an easier time ringing home and why there could not have been a phone on each floor.

I think one of my first posts on MN was remarking that this kind of multiple-choice question on gender never, ever, has a 'I don't believe in gender' option. And they still don't. Even though that would surely be appropriate for a fair percentage of the population.