British health authorities with another transphobic invalidation of trans lives (+more trans news)

Trans people should use hospital spaces according to biological sex, NHS England says

NHS England has introduced new guidance requiring transgender patients to be accommodated on hospital wards according to their sex registered at birth rather than their gender identity.

The policy reverses previous guidance allowing trans people to be placed in wards corresponding to their gender identity. Trans women may therefore be assigned to men’s wards, and trans men to women’s wards. The restrictions also extend to staff toilets and changing facilities.

Trans groups warn NHS ‘single-sex’ wards guidance puts “politics before patient care”

In yet another development in the continuing British War On Trans, the NHS in England has issued guidelines that severely restrict accommodation and spaces for trans patients and trans members of staff #BWOT

Interim Statement: NHS England Single Sex Guidance.

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