The United Kingdom will ban transsexuals from women's hospital units

The British Minister of Health, Steve Barclay, announced this Tuesday plans to prevent transsexuals from being treated in hospital units reserved only for women.

In his speech during the annual conference of the Conservative Party in Manchester (northern England), Barclay announced that he is preparing a change in the rules of the public health system (NHS) to ensure that “the privacy, dignity and safety of all patients.”

The new regulation will recognize “the importance of different biological needs and will protect the rights of women,” the minister explained. His plan, which will also affect men-only units, provides that patients' requests for certain care to be offered by a person of the same sex will be respected.

The Minister of the Interior, Suella Braverman, supported her cabinet colleague's announcement: “Trans women have no place in women's units or in any safe space designed for biological women,” she told the media.

The Minister of Health “is absolutely right to clarify and make it clear that biological men should not be treated in the same units and in the same safe spaces as biological women,” he added.