A proposal was recently delivered to the U.K.'s National Health Service (NHS) to ban transgender women — biological men — from using women’s change rooms, reported GBN on Monday.The proposal, drafted by several nurses from Darlington, said female spaces are exclusive and should not be inclusive men."This comes as the nurses are taking their employer, County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, to an employment tribunal over sexual discrimination and sexual harassment," wrote GBN."This was after they were made to share a changing room with a biological male who identified as a woman, but who was not undergoing any medical treatment to transition. The nurses said they raised their concerns with human resources but were promptly told they needed to be re–educated.”Health Secretary Wes Streeting met with the nurses in October, requesting they send him a proposal."The document, sent to the Health Secretary last month, notes that there should be no hierarchy under equality laws, and that the rights of trans people should not be prioritized over those of women," wrote GBN.News of a potential pivot in change room policy in the U.K. follows months after comments by Canada's Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre indicating biological men should be banned from women's sports, change rooms and bathrooms, reported the CBC "Female spaces should be exclusively for females, not for biological males," said Poilievre.Poilievre was asked if, as prime minister, he would table legislation to prevent biological men from participating in female sports or entering female prisons and shelters, wrote CBC."A lot of the spaces are provincially and municipally controlled, so it is unclear what reach federal legislation would have to change them," said Poilievre."But obviously female sports, female change rooms, female bathrooms should be for females, not for biological males."
