Kemi Badenoch calls for end to trans ‘witch-hunt’ within the NHS

Kemi Badenoch and the Conservative Party have warned that healthcare staff who affirm “the fundamental truth of biological sex” remain liable to sanction from bodies just like the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

The party has long been supportive of Jennifer Melle, the Christian nurse who was suspended after referring to a female-identifying convicted paedophile with male pronouns. She had also been accused of a “data breach” for making her story public.

After a months-long ordeal Melle’s employer dropped the disciplinary motion against her and reinstated her. However, Melle has yet to be cleared by the NMC, which has indicated that she could also be a “risk to the general public” as a consequence of her supposedly “misgendering” a patient. 

Melle recently took part in a roundtable meeting with MPs and the Darlington Nurses, who’ve also faced a lengthy legal battle as a consequence of their very own brush with trans ideology within the NHS. They finally won their fight for single-sex changing rooms in January.

Following the meeting, Melle said, “Meeting with Kemi Badenoch was encouraging because the Government must finally hearken to what nurses on the bottom are facing. No nurse should ever be forced to make use of compelled pronouns or punished for holding respectful, lawful beliefs about sex and gender. Yet I actually have been reported to the Nursing and Midwifery Council simply for staying true to my conscience.

“This situation is unsustainable. We urgently need clear national motion to guard nurses from ideological pressure within the workplace. No healthcare skilled should fear losing their profession for declining to make use of preferred gender identity terms. What has happened to me must not occur to anyone else.”

For her part, Badenoch said that nurses like Melle and people in Darlington had been victims of a “state-sponsored witch-hunt”, adding that it was a “disgrace” that the NMC was still investigating Melle.

“If this type of nonsense is allowed to face, it won’t be long until there’s one other Jennifer Melle. More good nurses can be dragged through the identical ordeal for stating easy facts. More professionals silenced for doing their job properly,” she said. 

She added, “You shouldn’t lose your livelihood for believing in biology. And patients should never be put in danger because politicians are too weak to confront a modern lie.”