STRICTER rules on sex and gender will be included in an update to the NHS Constitution.
The patient rights document will insist that doctors “respect the biological differences between men and women”.
Hospitals have been criticized for using gender-neutral terms such as “breast-fed”, “people who give birth” and “people with ovaries”.
Ministers will remove references to “gender” and replace them with “sex” as an eight-week consultation begins today.
The proposals will seek to limit the development of trans ideology that campaigners say is confusing.
It will also give patients the right to be treated by a nurse or doctor of the same sex.
And it promotes a commitment to preventing patients from being kept on mixed wards.
Health Secretary Victoria Atkins said: “We have always been clear that sex is important and our services must respect that.”
But Professor Nicola Ranger, from the Royal College of Nursing, said the changes occurred “in a parallel universe” to reality.
She said understaffed hospitals are “taking care of people in store hallways, doorways and closets.”
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