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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Y. Áine Fox

New NHS guidance confirms exclusion of trans women patients from female wards

NHS England guidance on single-sex hospital accommodation has been published (Peter Byrne/PA) - (PA Wire)

Transgender patients should be placed on wards according to their birth sex rather than their gender identity, updated NHS England guidance has confirmed.

This means hospitals can lawfully exclude patients who are trans women from female wards, and those who are trans men from male wards.

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