Mental health hospitals in charge of violent criminals allow biologically male patients who ‘self identify’ as women to be placed on female wards.
An audit of NHS mental health trusts in London found that they have policies which allow transgender people in single-sex spaces, according to The Times.
Campaigners have hit out at the findings and warned that NHS trusts are ‘playing Russian roulette with women’s safety’.
Sex and gender policies at mental health trusts in the capital were obtained by a women’s rights group using freedom of information laws.
Those audited cover hospitals including Broadmoor, a specialist psychiatric hospital which houses ‘forensic patients’, who are people detained in a mental health facility instead of prison.
