As Trans Individuals Are Being Accomodated “According to their presentation”, One Australian Newspaper Declares ‘Progress’ Has Made Women Less Safe In Hospitals

I cannot help but recall my nursing days in the 1970s and 1980s, which seem like the dark ages in medical terms.

But there is much we could learn. Take the wards where I worked — Florence Nightingale wards; they had 15 beds down each side with the nurses’ office at the end’.

‘In the centre was a long oak table where we would write notes and record observations.

All patients were within our line of sight at all times. And there were women’s wards and men’s wards.

Any stranger who ventured on to a women’s ward was risking his life, and any inappropriate behaviour would have been spotted by the keen eye of the ward sister or her staff in a flash.

There was an unspoken understanding that female in-patients especially — often in pain, drowsy from medication, and perhaps only partially clothed — were to be protected, respected, and their dignity safeguarded at all costs.

In today’s NHS, the Florence Nightingale setup is a thing of the past’.

Posie Parker on the terrifying conflict of interest between women’s rights and trans rights in Australia & New Zealand.

She goes on to say, ‘Hospital wards are now a warren of four-bedded or six-bedded bays and single rooms, with the nurses’ station at a distance.