The word ‘Orwellian’ gets chucked around a lot. A lot of the time the word is misused and is used wrongly, but occasionally there appear into the public eye cases where the word Orwellian may be quite appropriate to describe public servants who utter complete and utter lies in order to not depart from the ideology that has been inculcated into them.

I can’t think of a better word at this moment in time than Orwellian to describe NHS staff and management who refused to admit that a woman who had been allegedly raped on a female only NHS hospital ward had been raped by a man. The NHS Trust in question had, according to Baroness Nicholson speaking in the House of Lords and since then reported widely including on Graham Linehan’s Substack, placed a man who self identified as woman in the female only ward whereupon the man allegedly raped one of the female patients. When the rape complainant told her story to the police, the NHS denied that there were any men in the ward and they kept this lie up for over a year. A rape investigation could not continue because under Section 1 of the 2003 Sexual Offences Act the crime of rape can only be carried out by a male with a penis inserted without consent into a vagina, anus or mouth.

In this case, the NHS by consistently and continually lying about the fact that there was an intact man in a women’s ward has prioritised the claims of a man that he was a not a man very much ahead of the safety and security of women in the hospital’s care. This is a monstrous failure by the NHS, it really is. Thankfully in this instance, according to Baroness Nicholson, whistle-blowers and CCTV have finally been listened to and examined and the case being brought by the complainant is now apparently moving forward. The NHS has also changed its tune and admitted that a rape took place.

I believe that there’s probably not more that can be said publicly about the active case in question here because of sub judice rules. However it does shed some light on what is happening in British hospitals with regards to the NHS’s failures to listen to women’s complaints and also the NHS telling women to disbelieve the evidence of their own eyes and lying to the faces of female patients.

According to the report of Baroness Nicholson’s speech in the lords, which can be found here, the root cause of NHS staff lying to female patients about the presence of men in female facilities, something that women are in my view entitled to object to, do not lie with individual activist members of staff getting out of control. It’s worse than that, it’s NHS policy to deny that there are men in women’s wards when women patients raise this issue with or complain to NHS staff.

NHS sex segregation policies are a legislative requirement and have been so since 2010 with the outline of the policy along with information about the progress being made in sex segregation in the NHS can to be found in the Delivering Same Sex Accommodation document. Unfortunately all the good work that has been done in making the necessary areas of the NHS sex segregated can be thrown out of the window without much of a thought if a male patient claims to be female whereupon they can be placed in female facilities. The loophole that Annexe B of the Sex Segregation guidance is the root cause of potentially dangerous men being placed in women only wards in hospitals.

Baroness Nicholson said that this dangerous situation where men were placed in women’s wards and allowed to use women’s facilities on what appears to be a very liberal, almost self identification basis, has come about because Annexe B provides a loophole in the normally quite strict rules regarding sex segregation in British state hospitals. She made her comments during a debate in the Lords on the matter of Annexe B of the 2019 NHS sex segregation document. This annexe of the sex segregation document sets out out how sex segregation policies are applied and monitored. What’s concerning is that the sex segregation rules, which are seriously important for patient safety and dignity, are being evaded by staff who have to put the trans person’s claims and desires first and treat a claim of being a particular gender as being correct.

The document, called Delivering Same Sex Accommodation 2019, sets out where the NHS can and cannot mix sexes in hospital accommodation and where breaches of the segregation rules can and cannot be justified. It is, as far as I can see a sensible policy which recognises that whilst it is impossible and impractical to sex segregate a service like Accident and Emergency or where highly specialist treatment is being administered, there are some areas such as surgery, post operative wards and psychiatric facilities that must, almost without breach, be sex segregated. This is because those parts of the hospital to which sex segregation must apply, segregate because of the vulnerability of the occupants and the need for the hospital to be mindful of the safety and security of patients and to protect patient dignity.

For background for those unaware of where this NHS document came from it helps to remember that there was a long political fight by patients groups and others to do away with the then policy of the NHS to allow mixed sex wards and facilities. Labour promised 1997 to bring in sex segregated wards but as with so many of New Labour’s promises they failed to do much to change the mixed sex ward situation. The Coalition government of 2010 finally changed the mixed sex ward policy and created a system to achieve and enforce sex segregation in hospitals.

Whilst the Sex Segregation document applies and enforces what I see as a good policy for protecting patients safety and dignity and is somewhat praiseworthy, it has a massive and dangerous loophole. That loophole is the aforementioned Annex B to the Sex Segregation policy document.

Annex B is written in such a way that when I look at it I can readily interpret it as accepting gender self identification. A male person can claim to a hospital that they are a woman and the hospital with the hospital accepting without question that claim and without the claimant having to produce a gender recognition certificate and without having any medical record of having sought treatment for any gender dysphoria related condition. According to the NHS’s interpretation of the 2010 Equality Act a male person does not even have to be thinking of gender reassignment to be believed when the person claims that they are something that they are patently and obviously not.

Here’s what Annexe B says:

Under the Equality Act 2010, individuals who have proposed, begun or completed reassignment of gender enjoy legal protection against discrimination. A trans person does not need to have had, or be planning, any medical gender reassignment treatment to be protected under the Equality Act: it is enough if they are undergoing a personal process of changing gender.

This looks to me very much like Self ID. It’s ‘feels over reals’. The mere claim by a person that they are not the sex that they can be observed to be, is accepted without question. Even if the person in front of the clinician can be seen whether by immediate or more intimate examination, to be male, that male’s claim that they are a woman must be prioritised over the objections of natal women.

The claimant’s lie is accepted and from then on women in what should be single sex wards who object to the bearded man being put in the bed opposite, are told by NHS staff that ‘there is no man in the ward’. It might be obvious that there is a man in the ward, after all beards do tend to be linked to masculinity, but the lie told by the man claiming to be a woman has to be repeated by the staff to the patients and women who object to men on women’s wards told to shut up and disbelieve their own eyes.

The Annexe B guidance basically permits self ID. There’s no requirement to show engagement in a treatment process for gender dysphoria all the male patient needs to do is make a claim that they are a woman. There’s not even any duty imposed on the NHS’s staff to ascertain whether or not the male presenting to them is on that part of the recognised psychiatric transition pathway and living for two years presenting as the opposite sex. An unsubstantiated claim by a man is all that is required to be placed in female accommodation in a hospital. A part time transvestite could rock up at A and E on a Saturday night and end up having subsequent treatment on a female only ward if the transvestite claimed that they were female. It would matter little to the NHS if said transvestite only wore female attire on the first Saturday of every month, if they claimed to be a woman then the NHS would accept that claim.

This is really not right and shows the NHS acting as if 2+2=5. A male patient may be presenting as quite obviously male and an intact male at that but the male’s dishonest claim contrary to evidence that they are something they are not, gets accepted. In effect a lie is accepted and promoted in order that the NHS adhere to an ideology, one of gender that is itself built on a whole mountain of falsehoods ranging from puberty blockers are reversible to untreated transgenders are more prone to suicide. The NHS is now so frightened of being criticised by the increasingly deranged votaries of the Cult of Trans that they accept lies and tell lies. This is behaviour that is truly Orwellian.

Sex segregation in hospitals protects everyone. It is a policy that protects women from predation by the very worst type of men and it protects men from potential false allegations from women in mixed sex wards. It protects the dignity of the patient as well as ensuring their security and safety by making sure that wherever possible the patient is not exposed to the unwanted gaze of others especially the gaze of those who are of the opposite sex of the patient.

The case discussed in the Lords by Baroness Nicholson is truly appalling. The crime that was allegedly committed by the trans patient on this woman is a monstrous one. It’s especially so because it occurred in a hospital where the complainant had the expectation of safety and dignity. It’s even more monstrous that the NHS chose to continue to lie over the fact that there was a man in a women’s hospital ward, to continue to protect and sustain whatever delusion the trans patient presented to NHS staff and which was accepted by them.

What worries me is whether or not this is a one off outlier case or whether this case is the tip of an iceberg. There could currently be or there have been other cases within the NHS where intact males claiming to be trans or claiming to be female have either harmed women or made women fearful whilst in hospital. The existence of a written policy that puts the rights of those who claim to be something they are not above the rights of women, men and children (yes children because the NHS sex segregation document says that children can self ID as well, regardless of parental views) leads me to suspect that this case might be the tip of a very nasty iceberg.

The fact that the NHS has a policy that explicitly states that the hospital staff are not even allowed to look at the genitalia of a new but incapacitated patient but to decide instead on grounds of ‘gender presentation’, really makes me wonder about how bad things are regarding this issue in the NHS. There could be thousands upon thousands of women who are uncomfortable about having men in female wards with such complaints not yet coming to proper light and being sufficiently publicised. I also wonder just how many other women could be being harmed or women being made to feel fearful because of the presence of an intact male on their supposedly women only wards?

Baroness Nicholson has raised a very important point about how much the NHS has taken on board the ideology of the Cult of Trans and how this could be endangering women. It is also quite illustrative as to the extent that the NHS will go in order to ride the ideological rails laid out for them by trans activists. The NHS now appears to be at the point where a male patient with the delusion that they are female but who has not even considered medical or surgical transitioning can be treated as female. This has led to a situation where the NHS and its staff are quite willing to treat women and their needs their personal dignity and expectation of safety in NHS hospitals as being of a secondary nature in social value to the patently false claims of men in dresses.

What a disgraceful state the NHS has become. On top of the other relatively normal failures of the NHS such as piss poor treatment, waste, incompetence and bureaucracy, we now have another problem that this epic disgrace of a health service has given us, now we have pretend women allegedly raping real women and the NHS lying about it. If you are still doing the ‘Stalin Clap’ for the NHS as the government encouraged you to a few years ago or do not yet feel proper shame for doing said Stalin Clap, then do please remember and understand what you were or are applauding. You are applauding an NHS that is so wedded to extreme ideologies that it puts women in danger merely so that the NHS can properly genuflect before the promoters of these ideologies. Personally I could not in all good conscience applaud the NHS, even more so now that this appalling story of the repay tranny has come to light.

What an appalling, dangerous and politically driven mess the NHS has become. Women deserve better from the NHS. In fact we all deserve better than an NHS that goes along with lies merely to be perceived as being properly politically correct and following ideologies that can end up bringing enormous harm to NHS patients and their families. Don’t be fooled. It’s not ‘Our’ NHS. We as British subjects or users of NHS services have no say in how the service is run. Maybe if we did have such control over the NHS then medical staff might not be forced to lie about the sex of patients, to satisfy the capricious demands of gender ideologues.