Why British politicians are defending women-only spaces
Labour and the Conservatives end up agreeing on a contentious issue
After a woman was raped in a British hospital in 2021, staff there claimed no such crime was possible because the alleged perpetrator was not male but transgender. “They forgot that there was cctv, nurses and observers,” Lady Emma Nicholson told the House of Lords in March 2022. Lady Emma was calling for an end to a policy of allowing trans hospital patients to be placed with the gender with which they identify rather than their biological sex. The hospital later apologised to the woman, who did not pursue the case in court. And Lady Emma’s call is set to be heeded.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Neutral territory”
Britain October 14th 2023
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