//…people do and should have the right to change their gender//
Indeed they do. With the term “gender” having been rendered largely meaningless, principally as a result of this nonsense, the process does not make a man into a woman. What is happening here is that the rights of half the population are being sacrificed in order to bestow rights on about 0.2% of the population to behave as they wish. Men can call themselves what they like. But when people and large authorities begin to indulge them in their fantasies and it begins to impinge on the rights and safety of all women, it is time for another approach.
//…as this person is guilty of sex crimes it would be extremely negligent to put them in a woman's prison...//
Why would it? Are you saying he only has the rights of a transgender person provided he behaves himself? Rights don’t work like that. You either have them or you don’t. Even the most vile of criminals have the right to be treated humanely when they are incarcerated. How long do you think a decision to put him in a men’s prison would last? It would fall at the first hurdle. Rights of this type are not conditional on good behaviour. Once you have them, you have them. My argument is that they should not have been bestowed in the first place (on anybody, not especially sexual offenders).
//How do you know the Nurses / ward staff were told to lie?//
//i am not totally convinced that it actually happened//
Always difficult to prove a negative but I think if it had not happened Lady Nicholson would have been more strongly challenged at the time. However, lets, forget the specific case and instead examine “Annex B”:
Parliament has decreed that all patients have the right to be treated in a single sex ward. However, Annex B is an NHS policy allowing patients to be sent to single-sex wards that align with their gender preference. Page 12 of this document:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/NEW-Delivering_same_sex_accommodation_sep2019.pdf
It goes to great lengths to describe that the Equality Act provides that individuals who have proposed, begun or completed reassignment of gender enjoy legal protection against discrimination. It says this:
• Trans people should be accommodated according to their presentation: the way they dress, and the name and pronouns they currently use.
• This may not always accord with the physical sex appearance of the chest or genitalia.
But most importantly:
• It does not depend on their having a gender recognition certificate (GRC) or legal name change
Either by accident or design (I know which I prefer) Annex B neglects to add that to enjoy protection (under the Equalities Act) an individual must have a GRC confirming their new gender. This is what Parliament has said. But the NHS seems to have skipped over that minor inconvenience and instead allows a man who simply says he is a she to be accommodated on a women’s ward. The NHS is deliberately undermining the wishes of Parliament because a man who self-identifies as a woman is still a man. It is my view that he remains a man after having received his GRC, but that's another argument.
The upshot of this is the vast majority of women in a women’s hospital ward will have to put up with having a man amongst them which I would imagine, would be specifically contrary to the wishes of most of them. By contrast, the man has his wish to be placed in a ward full of women duly respected. What justification is there for the majority - especially when most of them in a situation over which they have little control - to have their sensibilities trashed for such a small minority?