NHS staff have been ordered to treat trans colleagues with beards as women if they self-identify as female.
Training materials for NHS Scotland workers ask them to consider the fictional case of “Lucy”, a 29-year-old trans nurse who had yet to formally change their name from Lee.
The cultural humility training module states that Lucy “is still producing facial hair which is exposed” and that some other staff are unhappy correcting patients when they use male terms to describe the nurse.
