Molloy: ‘I don’t think trans people are a threat. I was psychotic at the time’

A mother with a fear of men has described her terror when she was locked in an NHS women’s psychiatric ward with a burly transgender patient who was about 6ft tall and “extremely male-bodied”.

Philippa Molloy, 42, said this weekend that she was “genuinely, absolutely terrified” because she had suffered a relapse in her bipolar disorder that made her irrationally convinced that men were conspiring to kill her.

When she raised her concerns with hospital staff, however, she said she was not taken seriously and her medical notes implied that she was a “transphobic bigot”.

She said the NHS had failed to think through the implications of allowing patients to self-identify their gender.

“The rights of that trans person to feel safe were put above