Posted on 04/30/2024 8:05:00 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie
Campaigners welcome change to constitution, which will ban trans women from female-only wards, as ‘return to common sense’
The NHS is to declare that sex is a matter of biology in a landmark shift against gender ideology.
Changes to the health service’s written constitution proposed by ministers will for the first time ban trans women from women-only wards, and give women the right to request a female doctor for intimate care.
The NHS constitution, a document that aims to set out the principles and values of the health service and legal rights for patients and staff, was last updated in 2015. It has to be updated at least every 10 years by the Secretary of State.
Campaigners for women’s rights welcomed the significant shift, which comes after years of wrangling and follows accusations that the health service had been captured by “gender ideology”.
In 2021, NHS guidance said trans patients could be placed in single-sex wards based on the gender with which they identified.
The new constitution will state: “We are defining sex as biological sex.”
The clarification means that the right to a single-sex ward means patients would “not have to share sleeping accommodation with patients of the opposite biological sex.
Until now, no commitment was made to biological sex, meaning some female patients complained that they were forced to share sleeping space with trans women – those who are born male but identify as female.
Victoria Atkins said 'we have always been clear that sex matters and our services should respect that' CREDIT: ANDY RAIN/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
Women’s rights campaigners said the move was a “return to common sense and an overdue recognition that women’s wellbeing and safety matter.”
However, NHS leaders raised concerns that the health service was being “dragged into a pre-election culture wars debate”.
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News Max’s Chris Plant news hour tonight, the black libturd professor commented saying there’s a difference between sex and gender. Stupid has no boundaries.
Don't women in the UK have that right now?
My son went to see a female urologist. The first thing she asked was whether he's comfortable with a woman doctor. (He was.) I think, in the US, there is an expectation that patients can be seen by doctors of their own gender if they so choose.
It's encouraging to see some pushback against gender ideology. There is no scientific basis for the notion that someone can change genders simply by "identifying" as the other gender. And it seems that mostly women are harmed by gender ideology. We're told that we must accept men in our locker rooms or that we must compete in sports against men because they "identify" as women. Why is it that we don't see many examples of men being harmed by gender ideology?
In twenty years I expect the butchers who performed this mutilation will be look upon like the psychiatrists of old with their hysterectomies and ice pick lobotomoes.
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No restrictions for trans males. Frigging hypocrites.
Supa!
entertaining mental illness was thier game by force if necessary
Sex is biology. Gender is literary. There are 2 sexes, male and female. There are three genders, masculine, feminine, and neuter.
They have to do a health care constitutional change to state the obvious. Insanity.
How about stating anyone believing anything other than biological sex is what you are is insane and needs mandatory mental health evaluation.
Well duh.
I’ve asked these people about chromosomes from the start. Follow the science.
There is no such THING as a gender. There are Boys there are Girls, nowhere in science or reality is there a gender.
Gender is a slave word.
I believe they probably do, but if their doctor is brain damaged and doesn't "identify" the same has his/her chromosomes, then you are apparently stuck with that mental case of a 'doctor'.
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