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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Andrew Gregory, Severin Carrell, Rajeev Syal and Peter Walker

NHS warned it must change guidance on single-sex spaces after court ruling

A hospital ward
Current NHS guidance in England says trans people should be accommodated based on how they dress, their names and their pronouns. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA

NHS bosses are scrambling to overhaul guidelines for single-sex spaces in thousands of hospitals and GP surgeries after the equality watchdog warned they would be pursued if they fail to do so.

The British Transport Police became the first to change policies on Thursday amid the fallout from the supreme court ruling on the legal definition of a woman, piling pressure on the health service and other organisations to revamp their guidance.

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