After being suspended from her job at the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy, Fife, following accusations of bullying and harassment on Christmas Eve 2023, nurse Sandie Peggie took the NHS and Dr Beth Upton to tribunal, claiming sexual harassment, harassment related to a protected belief, indirect discrimination and victimisation.
It is a legal action that centres around a male-bodied transgender doctor and a female nurse who objected to the doctor using the female-only designated changing room in the A&E department of a Scottish NHS hospital.
This week, Dr Upton has already told the judge that when objections were first raised by Peggie about his presence in the changing room, he had to 'be brave' and 'pull on my big girl pants'.
Isn't it more likely that as a woman who has been the victim of male sexual violence in the past, that as a woman who was suffering from a heavy menstrual flow at the time – and Nurse Peggie was both these things – she just wants a bit of peace and privacy in a man-free zone?.
One can have sympathy for Dr Upton's position but still understand that here is yet another trans woman demanding absolute respect and veneration for their identity while disregarding the rights of women to assert their own boundaries.
