Doctors at Tavistock’s gender identity clinic for adults have been told that objecting to men using the women’s toilets is akin to racism.
In a briefing session for GPs and clinicians at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, Dr James Barrett claimed that if a woman called the police because a man was using the women’s toilets, it would be “exactly the same” as if she had complained about a “black person”.
The lead doctor criticised the practice of assigning patients to hospital wards on the basis of biological sex, claiming it is the same principle as racial segregation.
‘Offensive’
Helen Joyce, Director of Advocacy at women’s group Sex Matters, branded the comments “deeply offensive” and the “sort of superficial comparison you might expect from a teenager who has watched too many TikTok videos, not a doctor in a senior leadership position”.
During the briefing, Dr Barrett also told clinicians that a gender-confused man can change his driving licence’s “sex marker” himself, and that a passport change only requires a doctor’s letter saying “they look like they are living as a woman”.
In addition, the senior doctor claimed that “a patient’s prior change of gender role is rarely clinically relevant and does not need to be mentioned”.
NHS
Earlier this month it was revealed that the Scottish Government had played a part in devising NHS Scotland’s controversial transgender guidance.
Responding to a freedom of information request, the Government disclosed that the official guidance had been developed with the help of its own “subject matter experts” within the Civil Service.
The revelations come as Sandie Peggie pursues legal redress from NHS Fife, after the trust disciplined her for objecting to the presence of a man who purports to be a woman in a staff changing room.
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