NHS hospitals across London are refusing to comply with single-sex laws to stop transgender people from using women-only spaces.
Currently, there are no single-sex spaces for women across the health service - leaving patients and staff to share toilets and changing rooms with transgender individuals.
Although the NHS has claimed that it has axed "mixed-sex accommodation", a number of exceptions have permitted trans people to share spaces with women in toilets, showers and hospital wards.
Around 28 hospital trusts across the capital refused to abide by rules for single-sex spaces, The Telegraph revealed, despite last week's landmark Supreme Court ruling that declared the definition of a woman was determined by biological sex.
Trans activists took to Parliament Square to protest the latest landmark ruling by the Supreme Court on the definition of a woman
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For instance, the NHS Trust website for Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals has informed patients that their "privacy and dignity" was "really important".
They subsequently assured their patients that they would be provided with single-sex spaces.
However, this stance conflicted with its policy that said that there could be "instances when sharing accommodation with the opposite gender reflects personal choice and may therefore be justified" - a rule which seemingly blends the terms "sex" and "gender".
The policies only make references to transgender patients in the appendices, where it says that transgender people can self-identify however they like.
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Meanwhile, from a Freedom of Information request from The Telegraph, Central and North West London University NHS Foundation Trust insisted that it was "committed to recognising all employees and patients and service users of the trust as the gender in which they choose to present in so far as is reasonable and practicable".
Originally, the trust did not publish its policy for public access.
The trust admitted that women and children could be "vulnerable" and have had "histories of sexual abuse".
However, it has also said that every "transsexual man or woman has equal right to access single-sex facilities".
Across London, a number of hospitals - including King’s College Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust - let those who identify as transgender to self-identify according to their gender identity.
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch told The Telegraph that the onus was on Wes Streeting to ensure that the public body abided by the law.
"The law here has actually been fairly clear but ideological managers in the NHS have either refused to comply with it, been misled by activists such as Stonewall, or led up the garden path by confused Labour MPs," she said.
GB News has approached Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, Central and North West London University NHS Foundation Trust, King’s College Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust for comment.
