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A Department of Health order says hospitals must provide single-sex wards and medics have warned that the guidance could breach their code of conduct by leaving the most vulnerable at risk.
Dr Jane Hamlin, president of the Beaumont Society, a trans support group, said: ‘If anyone starts off with an assumption that a trans person is a sex offender – or even a potential sex offender – that is discrimination and transphobia.’
The policies have been put in place even though a Department of Health order says hospitals have to provide single-sex wards. Pictured: The Department of Health offices in London
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