Patients who ask for same-sex doctors should not be treated like racists, ... trends now
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Patients who ask for same-sex doctors should not be treated like racists, the Health Secretary has warned.
Victoria Atkins has proposed changes to the NHS constitution to give women the right to request to be treated by a doctor of the same sex, and to stay in accommodation that is only shared by those of their biological sex.
NHS guidance from 2021 stated that transgender patients could be placed on the single-sex ward for the gender they identified with.
Ms Atkins told The Times: 'We have heard farcical stories that claimed patients who demanded to be on single-sex wards were equated to racists. This cannot be right.'
The constitution is updated every 10 years and aims to set out legal rights for both patients and staff.
Health Secretary Victoria Atkins has proposed changes to the NHS constitution to give women the right to request to be treated by a doctor of the same sex
The new proposals, which will see the constitution state that 'we are defining sex as biological sex', comes after accusations that the health service had been captured by 'gender ideology'.
Maya Forstater, the chief executive of gender-critical group Sex Matters, said healthcare workers became
