No hurry. We’ll get to it over the next few months, or perhaps next year, or some time soon after that.

The NHS has delayed a ban on staff who are trans women in female changing rooms and lavatories until the autumn.

Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, promised new guidance in April, after the Supreme Court ruled that trans women – people who are biological men – should be barred from using women’s single-sex services.

The Telegraph can reveal that NHS England has no plans to bring out the guidance until “late summer or early autumn” – meaning it may not be published until October or November.

That’s ok. It doesn’t matter. It’s only women who are at risk or uncomfortable. No hurry. Sit back, have another glass of wine, ignore the clock.

Many public bodies have already started observing the rules. The Football Association, for example, has barred trans women from the female game.

But NHS England has still not acted, despite Sir Keir Starmer telling organisations to comply with the law “as soon as possible”.

That’s interesting because you would think the NHS should be one of the first organizations to get their shit together. Not one of the slow, foot-dragging, reluctant, sulky, uncooperative ones, but one of the other kind. The NHS is the one that has the power to fuck up people’s bodies, so they really ought to be in a hurry to get their knowledge of who has which kind of body right.

An NHS spokesperson said: “The NHS is working through the implications of the ruling, and we absolutely recognise the need for revised guidance.

“It’s important for the Equality and Human Rights Commission to publish its statutory guidance before final decisions about future policy are taken.

“In the meantime, we are working closely with Government to ensure we can provide updated guidance for the health service as soon as possible.”

I don’t really get what the obstacle is. Men are not women and they never have been.