NHS Defies Supreme Court: Bureaucrats Put Ideology Over Women’s Rights
- Philip James
- 13 minutes ago
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Perhaps 2 years in prison for NHS managers who keep breaking the law might focus their minds.
Columnist-at-Large Philip James.
In a jaw-dropping display of institutional arrogance, NHS managers across the country are openly defying the Supreme Court ruling. A ruling that confirmed a simple truth: woman means adult human female.
While Britain’s highest court brought long-overdue clarity to the Equality Act—asserting that biological sex, not self-declared identity, defines legal womanhood—the NHS appears determined to carry on as if nothing has happened.
Despite the judgment forcing hospitals to finally protect single-sex spaces for women—after years of not just allowing biologically male patients to share female wards, but to actively promote the idea—health bosses have gone into damage control… for trans activists.
NHS bosses have declared “Unwavering commitment,” Not to women, but to their own preferred left-wing ideology.
Hospitals have issued saccharine memos pledging “solidarity” with trans-identifying males, promising unisex toilets and alternative arrangements—as if the court hadn’t just ruled that women deserve their own spaces, free from intrusion.
At Guy’s and St Thomas’ Trust, the chief executive lamented the “anxiety” caused to trans people by the decision, without a single syllable spared for the women who’ve spent years being forced to share intimate spaces with men.
Meanwhile, staff at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust chirped that “everyone is welcome,” blithely sidestepping the inconvenient legal fact that not everyone belongs in female-only wards.
At University Hospital Tees, managers didn’t bother pretending to care about women’s safety at all. Instead, they gushed about “solutions” for trans staff, boasting about unisex toilets, as though being made to share with men again is some kind of win for women.
Let’s be clear: this isn’t inclusion—it’s insubordination. This is what happens when perversions become policy. It's a coordinated institutional revolt against the rule of law, with NHS bureaucrats clutching their ideology so tightly, they can’t see the real-world consequences. And they're so entrenched in their beliefs that patients take second place. However, some staff are starting to break ranks. One furious employee described their hospital’s response as “utterly devoid of empathy for women.” Another accused leadership of “suppressing discussion” and “enforcing a hostile environment” for anyone who dares to believe sex matters.
The NHS has been captured by trans-activism Both Stonewall and Mermaids have infiltrated NHS management in recent years, Stonewall ghost-wrote the NHS policy on Transgender patients whilst Mermaids advised the Taverstock clinic on Transgender children.
Sex Matters campaigner Fiona McAnena nailed said to journalists after the ruling: “Most patients and taxpayers would prefer trusts focus on improving healthcare, not trying to find ways to defy a Supreme Court ruling.”
It is clear that public sector organisations are not going to change their ways. They're going to defy the courts, and the public, and continue pushing trans ideology.
Sherwood Forest Hospitals claimed to “recognise the importance of clarity in law,” while simultaneously reaffirming their commitment to “gender identity.” Translation? They’ll nod to the law, but obey the activists.
Even now, NHS England meetings reportedly proceed as if the law had changed in the other direction. Their heads are so deep in the ideological sand, they can’t—or won’t—acknowledge the years of harm their policies have inflicted.
The Supreme Court has spoken. Parliament, not pressure groups, defines the law. NHS managers don’t get to pick and choose which rulings they accept based on their social media feeds. If those NHS managers think that their job is to impose left wing ideologies on an unsuspecting public they need to have a reality check. They're public servants, not social engineers. Perhaps 2 years in prison might focus their minds.
Women have waited long enough. They have endured enough. And now, when the law finally backs them, the very institutions meant to protect them are actively defying the law in favour of men who get a sexual thrill dressing as a woman in public. The NHS needs to get back to its founding principles: care based on need, not identity. That means protecting single-sex spaces. That means listening to women. And that means respecting the law—not rewriting it in the HR department.
Until then, let’s call this what it is: an ideological insurgency against common sense, legality, and the basic dignity of half the population. If NHS managers continue to defy the law, and actively put women at risk, then they should be prosecuted, for misconduct in a public office. Otherwise, the law is meaningless.
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