The Darlington Memorial Hospital nurses claim their bosses ignored their concerns about having to share a changing room with a colleague born biologically male who now identifies as a woman.
Five NHS nurses claim they were forced out of their changing rooms and into a 'humiliating' locker room after complaining about a transgender colleague.
After taking legal action three months ago, the nurses were given what they labelled a 'humiliating' changing room - which was meant to be temporary but is still in place. Read More 'You need to be re-educated': What nurses claim they were told by bosses after transgender complaint 'Instead of listening and acting on our concerns and the public and media outcry, they have doubled down, putting transgender ideology before women's safety.
The woman continued: 'From the beginning we have always advocated for our male colleagues to be given dignified changing room space - we just do not believe that space should be in the female changing room.' But the Christian Legal Centre, which is supporting the women, claims that the trust's policies allow any member of staff to identify in the opposite gender and to access single-sex changing rooms, toilets or showers on that basis.
'We've got to find a better way through this and I'd be happy to meet them. We've got to find a way through that treats trans people with respect and respects women's safe spaces.' And the hospital and trust are understood to be continuing to allow the female changing room to be accessed by anyone who identifies as a woman, including the colleague in question.
Read MoreEXCLUSIVE Moment women's rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen is doused in soup AGAIN at rally in Sheffield The nurses were then told in July that their ward manager's office was being cleared out and would become a temporary locker room for anyone uncomfortable getting undressed in the female changing room.
The nurses have received hundreds of cards supporting them from women across the UK, with Harry Potter author JK Rowling among those backing their case.
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