00:00I believe that women's rights in this country are under serious threat, for the first time probably since the suffragette movement.
00:08And my question is very specific. Do you think it's right for a biological male to be on the same ward, in the same bay, as a woman?
00:21Hi, thanks for your question. No, I don't think it's right. We have to look at the cause, and it's probably the, again, underfunding of the NHS,
00:40because you can also have women and men in the corridor, you can also have them outside in the car park.
00:47Our NHS will always deal with the issues that people come in with, but our hospitals don't have the capacity, or are not modern enough,
01:00after they've been crumbling, to probably accommodate proper areas for women and for men.
01:09Can you say it's not that, it's an ideological choice?
01:13Well, in terms of the ideological choice, I absolutely prefer that women being treated in wards in hospitals should have their own ward.
01:25It's dead hot, we can't hear you when you shout from the back. We're not being obnoxious.
01:31The lady's saying it should be required.
01:35I mean, the point is that it's an ideological choice made by the NHS. They believe it's correct for self-identified men, who actually are male-bodied,
01:46to be placed in the same room as female patients. I don't think it is.
01:54As a nurse, and I've worked in the health service for about 30 years, as a nurse, I'm telling you, it's very, very dangerous, both for the men and for the women involved.
02:07And he's specifically on that point in healthcare.
02:10No, I don't think it should happen either.
02:14No, I don't believe in mixed wards.
02:17No, I don't. And the problem is you've got to change the law to allow for that protection to be put in place.
02:25And the Labour Party are saying they won't change the law, and they are all over the place on this one.
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