An NHS trust has told staff that trans people can still use women’s bathrooms and wards in spite of new guidance over single-sex spaces.
Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) told staff on Wednesday that there would be “no immediate changes” to its policies or practices while it awaited further guidance from NHS England.
What. fucking. further. guidance? They’ve already had the guidance – and anyway what kind of “guidance” is necessary? It’s very simple: no men in women’s bathrooms and wards. Seven words, all of them familiar to people who work in hospitals. What’s to guide?
Patients can access single-sex facilities, including hospital wards, according to their gender identity rather than biological sex, under the Trust’s Trans Inclusion and Single Sex Accommodation policies.
Staff are also allowed to use toilets and showers based on their gender identity.
Which being interpreted means men can continue to terrorize and humiliate women despite the law.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) revised Code came into force on Wednesday, more than a year after the Supreme Court ruled “sex” in equality law means biological sex rather than gender identity.
It says single-sex services must be provided based on biological sex. Transgender people should use facilities intended for their biological sex or separate or mixed-sex alternatives.
Must. Not “should” but “must”. The word ought to be must. It’s all this shuffling and hemming and cringing and replacing “must” with “ought” that encourages people to keep ignoring the law in order to make women’s lives hell.
An email from MPFT to staff this week said: “We understand this may be a difficult and anxiety-provoking time for our trans, non-binary and gender-diverse colleagues, service users and communities, and we want to reassure you that we stand by you, and remain committed to being an inclusive organisation.”
But no email saying that to women, I take it. Women don’t matter, it’s only our trans, non-binary and gender-diverse colleagues, service users and communities who matter. Women are just so much tiresome mud.
Female MPFT employees told The Telegraph they were upset by the decision to leave the policies unchanged.
One said: “The email lists a range of groups that the Trust stands by, but there is no mention of women or people who think sex matters.
Exactly so. What the hell is wrong with everyone?
Terry Stock, a public governor at MPFT, told The Telegraph he was disappointed but unsurprised by the Trust’s failure to update its policies.
Documents seen by The Telegraph show Mr Stock has repeatedly challenged the policies since becoming a public governor in late 2024, warning of risks to vulnerable female patients and staff.
After raising concerns about transgender activism and women’s rights, he was told colleagues had been left feeling “hurt or excluded” and was discouraged from attending an LGBT+ staff event because it was “not an appropriate forum for questioning the legitimacy of trans identity or debating trans rights”.
Which being translated means it’s not an appropriate forum for defending women’s rights.
The Trust agreed in April 2025 to examine the lawfulness of its policies. However, a freedom of information response confirmed in June that the policies and guidance were unchanged.
Again: there’s nothing to “examine”. Just stop letting men invade women’s spaces.
“The Trust appears to be ideologically captured,” said Mr Stock. “Senior officials have repeatedly failed to address the conflict between these policies and the law. Nothing changes. They show a complete disregard for women’s privacy, dignity and safety.”
The dispute comes amid wider uncertainty over the NHS’s response to the new Code.
NHS England has declined to set out a timetable for replacing national guidance that allows transgender patients to be accommodated according to gender identity, saying only that updated policies will be published “shortly”.
Why shortly? Why not right this minute? It isn’t rocket science. No men in women’s spaces: five words.
Every hour of every day we’re reminded how easy it is for people to trash women’s rights for the sake of a tiny minority of men who like to pretend to be women. I’m tired of it.
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