The NHS continues to force women to be ill in the presence of men.

The NHS is defying the Supreme Court by allowing transgender patients and staff to access single-sex spaces in English hospitals.

Hospitals are using outdated guidance allowing trans-identifying biological males to use women-only spaces such as wards, changing rooms and lavatories.

An audit has revealed that more than eight months after the Supreme Court ruled that the term “women” in the Equality Act referred to biological sex, the NHS is still failing to protect female spaces.

And thus refusing to protect women. In hospitals.

Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, pledged to overhaul the NHS guidance on single-sex spaces after the Supreme Court ruling but, like all departments, is stuck in limbo. In the meantime, single-sex guidance from 2019 that has been “under review” for several years remains the only national guidance available to NHS trusts.

An update was made in April 2025 simply to state that “revised guidance which supports privacy, dignity and safety for all patients in hospital accommodation will be published as soon as possible”.

As possible? How can it take most of a year (and counting) to publish guidance that says no men in women’s hospital accommodation? They could have done it in a matter of hours.

Now an audit of all the NHS trusts in England by a group of concerned women – and shared with The Telegraph – found that not a single one had protected spaces for female patients and staff.

Not a single one. It’s almost as if women just don’t matter.

University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust says that “non-binary individuals should be fully supported in using the facilities in which they are comfortable and not forced to decide between ‘Men’s’ and ‘Women’s’ facilities based solely on gender expression”.

Which entails saying (apparently silently) that women should not be fully supported in using the facilities in which they are comfortable.

It’s like watching snakes learn to tap dance.