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    Trans people will be accommodated in 'side rooms' of single-sex wards, Sir Keir Starmer tells LBC
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    Trans people will be accommodated in ‘side rooms’ of single-sex wards, Sir Keir Starmer tells LBC

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    1. ShitFuckCuntBollocks on

      Aren’t side rooms usually for more seriously ill people? I was put in one because I had a compromised immune system.

    2. smity31 on

      Is there any evidence to back up the idea that cis women are not safe when trans women with GRCs are allowed to use women’s spaces such as hospital wards and toilets?

    3. No-Pride168 on

      I thought we had bed shortages?

      Are we saying that if I tell them I’m trans, I’ll get my own side room?

    4. princessxha on

      There’s such a shortage of beds that realistically, I don’t think you get many same-sex wards anymore. It’s literally a weird diversionary thing and not a real issue.

    5. GaryTheFiend on

      Not a chance this is feasible even on a practical level. Isolation rooms are used predominantly for those with infectious diseases or compromised immune systems, so unless hospitals see a reduction in the numbers of these specific patient cohorts or a reduction in the hospital overcrowding issue Keir is talking through his hoop.

    6. PaniniPressStan on

      Are there really the spare facilities to have individual rooms for every trans person?

    7. Vasquerade on

      I’m just so tired of people propagandizing about my existence being a threat to women. I have lived ten years as a woman, my entire adult life. I pass. I’ve never had anyone complain about me in women’s spaces. Doctors and nurses have had no problem accommodating me and treating me as a woman.

      Kier Starmer is a smart man. There is no way he doesn’t know how much shite he’s talking here.

      He knows trans women are not a threat. So do Streeting, Dodds, and the rest of them who are licking the boots of a vile hate movement [described as such by the United Nations](https://www.thetimes.com/uk/society/article/un-women-says-gender-critical-activists-are-anti-rights-movement-b5mk7h9qr). I can only hope that they’re just saying this to not give any red meat to the Tory base, but this is so fucking bleak, man.

    8. htmwc on

      This feels slightly insane and fence sitting. Side rooms are hard to comeby and reserved for infectious patients (usually). Don’t think its even feasbile.

    9. Ginge04 on

      Practically, what this means is that trans people will end up stuck in A&E for days on end, being managed terribly by medical teams who forget they’re there and an A&E team who have passed on clinical responsibility. The solution, of course, is greater funding in hospital infrastructure, more side rooms and more staff, that will benefit everyone in society.

    11. JD_Crichton on

      Transwoman here. When i was admitted a few months ago they moved me to a side room unprompted.

    12. kank84 on

      “Separate but equal” has not historically worked out great for the minority groups it has applied to

    13. Jedibeeftrix on

      the NHS is in crisis! the demand for service cannot be met, and waiting lists are becoming shocking.

      *”let’s make service provision more complicated, and more difficult to service in capital/revenue terms. yay!”*

    14. welsh_cthulhu on

      And so begins what will be one of the great themes of his reign as PM – identity politics.

    15. Commandopsn on

      If we did that then there would be no siderooms left for the seriously I’ll