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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Murray Social affairs correspondent

Trans women no longer to be placed on female-only wards under new NHS England guidance

Nurses in uniforms work and talk in a busy hospital ward corridor with blue curtains
The new guidance states that trans people should be ‘accommodated in line with their biological sex’. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA

Trans women will no longer be placed on female-only wards under new NHS England guidance on single-sex spaces.

The new rules, published on Thursday, mean single-sex wards, toilets and changing rooms will be used by people based on their biological sex, not their gender identity.

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