Bethany Hutchison, one in all the ‘Darlington Nurses’, has spoken in regards to the ordeal she and her colleagues endured after refusing to share changing room with a transgender colleague. She also praised the work of the Christian Legal Centre for helping them finally receive justice.
Hutchison, who heads the Darlington Nursing Union, was speaking on the She Leads the Nations Global Summit, happening on Capitol Hill, Washington DC, this week. During the event, she also met US politicians to debate the nurses’ case and the present state of freedom within the UK.
She opened her speech by saying that she “never imagined I can be standing on a stage like this, chatting with women from internationally about something as basic, yet now as controversial, as the truth that men and girls are different.”
Hutchison described the NHS as “ideologically captured”, adding that “biological reality, women’s dignity, and basic workplace safety” were sacrificed to trans ideology.
“Everything began when a biological male worker, identifying as a lady, was, all at once or consultation, granted access to the feminine changing room … the private place where women undress, store their belongings, and prepare for long shifts.”
She added that for a few of her colleagues the experience was particularly traumatising: “A colleague told me that after encountering the semi‑naked male within the changing rooms, she had suffered a panic attack that triggered memories of childhood abuse.”
When the nurses expressed their unease to the management they were told they needed to “broaden [their] mindset” and “be more inclusive”, even perhaps to be educated in why they need to accept changing in front of a transgender colleague.
The management gave the nurses an alternate location but they deemed it unsafe because it opened straight out right into a public corridor.
In January nonetheless, the nurses won their legal fight, which was supported from starting to finish by the Christian Legal Centre.
Hutchison said, “The tribunal ruled in our favour … They confirmed that the NHS Trust had broken UK law by forcing women to share a changing room with a male colleague.”
This, she said, represented “a win for each girl and woman in Britain … a win for truth … a win for common sense.”
Concluding her speech, she said, “This is just not a British problem. It is a Western problem. It is a cultural problem. It is a truth problem.”
Accompanying her on the event was Andrea Williams, CEO of the Christian Legal Centre, who warned that the Christian foundations of law, policy and freedom of speech in Britain were being increasingly eroded, with Christians increasingly being sanctioned for expressing their views.
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