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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Jane Kirby

Transgender people could be treated in private NHS rooms, Wes Streeting says

Transgender people could be treated in private rooms in the NHS, the Health Secretary has said, as he admitted wishing he had listened earlier to the debate around single-sex spaces.

Wes Streeting told LBC radio the NHS is still updating its guidance after the Supreme Court ruled the terms “woman” and “sex” in the 2010 Equality Act “refer to a biological woman and biological sex”.

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