Gender ideology suffers defeat after major UK hospital policy shift
New NHS guidance requires hospital accommodation to be based on biological sex, marking a major reversal after nurses faced disciplinary action for challenging gender-identity policies. The U.K.’s National Health Service has taken another step toward purging transgender ideology from hospitals. According to new guidance published on October 15, trans-identifying patients will now be placed in hospital wards that accord to their sex rather than their self-professed “gender identity.” This is a direct reversal of NHS England’s 2019 guidance, which formally instructed hospitals to place trans-identifying patients in wards that accorded to their “gender identity” rather than their sex. This reversal was not voluntary; the new guidance makes it crystal clear that the NHS was forced to make the changes based on the court rulings: The Equality Act 2010 protects everyone in Britain from discrimination based on 9 protected characteristics . To support providers of single-sex services, includin...