US EditionTrans women to be banned from female hospital wards, under new Tory proposals
- UK health secretary Steve Barclay plans to propose new regulations to address what he calls "wokery" in the NHS, which he believes has marginalized women's rights. The proposals would include potential bans on transgender women accessing female-only spaces.
- Changes to the NHS constitution aim to strengthen protection for women, including ensuring women's voices are heard in healthcare decisions. Sex-specific language has been restored to online health advice pages about cervical and ovarian cancer and the menopause.
- The proposed pushback against "wokery" in the NHS has been welcomed by the campaign group "Sex Matters," as they believe it will benefit all patients and staff, especially women. However, the announcement comes amidst strikes by junior doctors and consultants in England, posing additional challenges for the Conservative Party conference.
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Trans women to be banned from female-only wards under new plans to crack down on 'wokery'
Trans women are set to be banned from being housed in female-only wards, new plans by the Health Secretary suggest.Steve Barclay will reportedly announce a push back against "wokery" within the health service, including the return of "sex-specific language".Guidance created in 2021 allegedly urged NHS chiefs to allow trans patients the choice to be based on single-sex wards of the gender they identify.The Health Secretary said new guidance would…
UK Health Secretary pushes against 'wokery', to ban trans patients from female wards
Transgender women may soon be banned from female wards in the United Kingdom. UK health secretary Steve Barclay, as per reports, is all set to propose a pushback against such "wokery," as he calls it. Previously, the Tory MP has claimed that woke behaviour like this has led to women's rights being increasingly sidelined. Common sense Talking to the Telegraph, Barclay announced his plans to restore "common sense" to the NHS.
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