Trans patients to be treated in separate rooms in hospital under Tory plans

Ministers accused of dragging NHS into ‘culture wars debate’ with proposal for patient rights update

Transgender people will be treated in single rooms in hospitals in England under new government plans to update the NHS constitution.

The proposal follows a pledge last year by the then health secretary Steve Barclay to prevent people who had changed their gender identity from being treated on male-only or female-only wards.