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submitted 4 days ago by Quokka@quokk.au to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

A Human‑Rights Crisis Emerging in NHS Policy

In a recent interview on Times News, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Yvette Cooper, stated that under the new legal framework following the EHRC Code of Practice and the Supreme Court’s judgment in FWS v SGM, trans patients may be placed on single‑sex NHS wards according to their “sex assigned at birth.” Her justification was terse and emphatic: “The law’s the law.”

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[-] Armand1@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's isn't law though?

Asserting that it is is not a neutral stance. It's a transphobic one. They want it to be law, but it isn't and doesn't have to be.

this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2026
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