A 30-year NHS nurse in Scotland has successfully fought to have her employment tribunal against a trans woman colleague heard in public. The nurse, Sandie Peggie, claims she was harassed by Dr. Beth Upton, who identifies as a woman but is biologically male, after Upton allegedly undressed in front of her in a female changing room. Both Peggie and Upton work at the A&E department of Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy. The health board and Upton had initially sought to hold the proceedings in private, but Judge Antoine Tinnion ruled that the public interest outweighed concerns about privacy.
An NHS nurse who was suspended after she complained about a trans woman in a female changing room has beaten an attempt to have proceedings held in secret.
In a rare move, the health board and the trans woman made formal applications for the case to be heard in private and the names of those involved and the hospital department where they worked to be kept secret. The nurse - as well as gender-critical campaign groups - opposed gagging attempts at a special hearing in November.
He said: “There is already considerable — and the tribunal finds wholly legitimate — public interest in this case, with the BBC, The Times, other media and other campaigning groups wishing to attend the final hearing and be permitted to report it to their audiences. NHS Fife denies that Peggie was harassed by having to share a changing room with Upton. It also claims that her decision to cite Upton, along with the board, as a respondent in the employment case was “both unnecessary and vexatious”.
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