Women patients who complain about having a biological male in the next bed risk being kicked off the ward under new NHS transgender guidelines.

Medical staff will be expected to deal with those who object to trans patients on single-sex wards as if the complainant is a racist or homophobe, the guidance states.

Rather than relocate the trans patient, such as to a single room, it will be the person who makes the complaint who will be moved, according to the policy.

Women patients who complain about having a biological male in the next bed risk being kicked off the ward under new NHS transgender guidelines

And trans-women who were born male will be afforded the right to stay on women-only wards regardless of whether or not they have had sex reassignment surgery.

Last night, women's groups accused NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC), which published the guidance in its 'Gender Reassignment Policy', of failing to uphold single-sex wards and unfairly castigating those who had legitimate concerns.

Susan Sinclair, a campaigner for women's sex-based rights, said: 'It's important for hospitals to maintain single-sex wards, and for the privacy and dignity of all to be upheld. This policy fails to do that.'

She said that she was deeply concerned by 'the way the NHSGGC policy has framed patients who express distress about sharing a ward with a person of the opposite sex as being transphobic and then compares them to racists and homophobes.

Rather than relocate the trans patient, such as to a single room, it will be the person who makes the complaint who will be moved, according to the new policy

'This approach is abhorrent and completely fails to acknowledge the fact that wards are separated by sex — not race, not sexuality and not gender identity.'

The guidelines describe a scenario where an 'agitated' woman says 'she didn't expect to be sharing the ward with a man and points to the bed opposite'.

The document advises: 'The nurse should work to allay the patient's concerns.'

Labour's sex change pension mess Jeremy Corbyn has been warned Labour could 'end up in court' over plans to bar transgender women from a £58 billion scheme to compensate women who say they have lost out on state pension cash. The party has faced claims that its manifesto pledge to allow people to 'self-declare' their gender could lead to men switching sex to claim up to £31,300 earmarked for women born in the 1950s and affected by pension age changes. Labour yesterday dismissed the claim as a 'ridiculous transphobic attack'. But party sources did admit that men whose gender changed before the state pension changes were announced in the 1990s could be entitled to claim. Last night James Roberts of the Taxpayers' Alliance said: 'Labour could even end up with transgender women taking a Labour government to court. 'Corbyn should go back to the drawing board and design a policy that benefits all taxpayers.'

But, it continues: 'Her duty of care extends to protect patients from harassment and should the woman continue to make demands about the removal of the transgender patient and be vocal in the ward it would be appropriate to remind her of this.

'Ultimately it may be the complainant who is required to be removed.

'General appreciation of transgender issues is relatively low within our communities and often this is used as a rationale for behaviour that is essentially transphobic.

'If a white woman complained to a nurse about sharing a ward with a black patient or a heterosexual male complained about being in a ward with a gay man, we would expect our staff to act in a manner that deals with the expressed behaviour immediately.'

Dr Nicola Williams, director of Fair Play For Women, responded: 'It's not prejudice to perceive someone as the sex they actually are.'

Last night a spokesman for the health board said: 'When a patient with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment uses our services, we will challenge anyone who has a 'them and us' position in our facilities.

'We ask that all patients, staff and visitors adopt an understanding that we are all part of the same diverse gender spectrum.'