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The health service is considering reversing reverse guidance on terms like 'chestfeeding' to plans to give hospitals clear language based on biological sex.
Terms like 'chestfeeding' and referring to 'people with ovaries' instead of 'women' could change under the new plans.
The Health Secretary, Victoria Atkins, will announce the proposed changes to the NHS Constitution this week, the Telegraph reported.
A new version of the Constitution has been drafted to ensure women-only spaces are protected.
Under the proposals, trans women may not be treated on single-sex female wards.
This is a shift from previous NHS guidance that allowed trans patients to be put on single sex wards in relation to the gender they identify with.
The Health Secretary, Victoria Atkins (pictured), will announce the proposed changes to the NHS Constitution this week
Terms like 'chestfeeding' and referring to 'people with ovaries' instead of 'women' could change under the new plans (Stock Image)
The proposals would also give patients more powers to request a doctor of the same biological sex as them in matters of 'intimate care', while trans patients would have their own private spaces where hospitals can provide them.
Under the new NHS Constitution, the importance of 'sex specific' language could be emphasised.
This comes after mentions of women were removed from health pages on cervical and ovarian cancers in order to be more 'inclusive' in 2022.
MailOnline previously reported how past NHS information on ovarian cancer once read: 'Ovarian cancer, or cancer of the ovaries, is one of the most common types of cancer in women.'
It also said: 'Ovarian cancer mainly affects women who have been through the menopause (usually over the age of 50), but it can sometimes affect younger women.'
However in 2022 both lines were removed and another
