A psychiatrist took legal action Thursday against the Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust in England, alleging hospital officials ignored safeguarding concerns about men who identify as women being admitted to female psychiatric wards despite a landmark U.K.Supreme Court ruling on biological sex.The Christian Legal Centre, which is representing the psychiatrist under the name "Dr.
A," said in a press release that "vulnerable female patients, including survivors of sexual violence, have been detained in psychiatric wards under unlawful NHS policies which allow men to access these wards and intimate places, such as showers, because they merely identify as women.""The public, politicians and the media need to know that mentally ill men and women are being detained together on mixed-sex wards whilst the NHS pretends its wards are single-sex," Dr.A said in the press release.The dispute follows the U.K.
Supreme Court's unanimous April 2025 decision that the terms "woman," "man" and "sex" in the Equality Act 2010 refer to biological sex.The ruling permits biological males who identify as women to be excluded from certain women-only spaces while leaving existing protections against discrimination based on gender reassignment intact.FEMALE VIRGINIA OFFICER SUES POLICE DEPARTMENT AFTER ALLEGEDLY SHARING LOCKER ROOM WITH BIOLOGICAL MALEA senior NHS psychiatrist is suing Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, alleging officials failed to protect female patients after allowing biological males who identify as women onto female psychiatric wards.
(Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)Despite the ruling, Dr.A claims that her repeated requests about how the NHS Trust was complying with the law were "met with delay, resistance and suggestions that the judgment might be challenged in the European Court of Human Rights."Dr.
A also said that the day after the Supreme Court ruling, the Trust reportedly told staff there would be no immediate changes for ...