NHS CRACKDOWN
Tougher rules on sex and gender set to be written into update of NHS Constitution
Proposals will seek to limit the development of trans ideology that campaigners claim is confusing
TOUGHER rules on sex and gender are set to be written into an update of the NHS Constitution.
The patient rights document will insist medics “respect the biological differences between men and women”.
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Hospitals have been criticised for using gender-neutral terms like “chestfeeding,” “birthing people” and “people with ovaries”.
Ministers will remove references to “gender” and replace them with “sex” as an eight-week consultation starts today.
Proposals will seek to limit the development of trans ideology that campaigners claim is confusing.
It will also give patients the right to be treated by a nurse or doctor of their own sex.
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And it pushes a pledge to stop patients being kept on mixed sex wards.
Health Secretary Victoria Atkins said: “We have always been clear that sex matters and our services should respect that.”
But Prof Nicola Ranger, of the Royal College of Nursing, said the changes were “in a parallel universe” to reality.
She said short-staffed hospitals are “caring for people in corridors, doorways and store cupboards”.
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