by Georgina Mumford, spiked
A woman who ‘identified’ as trans was placed in an all-male psych ward. She was raped an hour later.
Within an hour of being transferred to Lambeth Hospital’s all-male psychiatric ward on 12 April 2022, an unnamed transgender man (ie, a biological female) was pushed into a cupboard and raped.
‘No Adam’s apple’, the patients chanted when the woman arrived. As she went into a side room to avoid other patients asking, ‘Are you a girl?’, she was followed by 27-year-old Davointe Thomas. He proceeded to subject her to a sex attack. Last month, a London Crown Court convicted Thomas of rape and handed him an indefinite hospital order.
How could this have happened? How could a vulnerable woman have been placed in a secure psychiatric ward brimming with troubled, unstable men? The answer, of course, lies in the NHS’s embrace of trans ideology – an ideology in which a person’s gender identity is said to trump biological reality, safety be damned.
Indeed, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has confirmed as much. It insisted its decision to transfer the female patient to a male psych ward was in line with NHS England’s policy on gender at the time.