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Campaigners welcome change to constitution, which will ban trans women from
female-only wards, as ‘return to common sense’

The NHS is to declare that sex is a matter of biology in a landmark shift
against gender ideology.

Changes to the health service’s written constitution proposed by ministers will
for the first time ban trans women from women-only wards, and give women
the right to request a female doctor for intimate care.

The NHS constitution, a document that aims to set out the principles and
values of the health service and legal rights for patients and staff, was last
updated in 2015. It has to be updated at least every 10 years by the
Secretary of State.

Campaigners for women’s rights welcomed the significant shift, which comes
after years of wrangling and follows accusations that the health service had
been captured by “gender ideology”.

In 2021, NHS guidance said trans patients could be placed in single-sex wards based on the gender with which they identified.

The new constitution will state: “We are defining sex as biological sex.”

The clarification means that the right to a single-sex ward means patients
would “not have to share sleeping accommodation with patients of the
opposite biological sex”.

Until now, no commitment was made to biological sex, meaning some female
patients complained that they were forced to share sleeping space with trans
women – those who are born male but identify as female.

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