A gaggle of nurses has won their case against the NHS after they were forced to share their changing room with a trans-identifying biological male.
Employment Judge Sweeney and tribunal members Denise Newey and Malcolm Brain ruled that the policy enforced by County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust had did not take the concerns of the nurses seriously and amounted to illegal harassment and discrimination.
The tribunal concluded that the policy violated the dignity of the nurses and created “a hostile, humiliating and degrading environment”.
It is the newest landmark judgment to be handed down on transgenderism after the Supreme Court last 12 months declared that the legal definition of a lady is predicated on biological sex. That ruling determined that using public facilities, like changing rooms, needs to be based on biological sex reasonably than subjective feelings.
The Christian Legal Centre (CLC), which supported the Darlington nurses of their case, called Friday’s judgment from the employment tribunal “a serious victory for girls’s rights and workplace safety”.
CLC chief executive Andrea Williams said, “This judgment exposes the extent to which the NHS hierarchy has been captured by extreme gender ideology and its willingness to sacrifice women’s safety and dignity in an effort to uphold it.
“Allowing a person right into a female-only space because he claims to be a woman violates human dignity, common sense, the law of the land and biblical truth.
“The NHS and the federal government should now quit their sabotage of clear judicial decisions and abide by the law which acknowledges that men are men and ladies are women.”
Responding to the ruling, Bethany Hutchison, president of the Darlington Nursing Union and considered one of the nurses who brought the case, said, “This is a victory for common sense and for each woman who simply desires to feel secure at work.
“Women deserve access to single-sex spaces without fear or intimidation. Forcing us to undress in front of a person was not only degrading but dangerous. Today’s ruling sends a transparent message: the NHS cannot ignore women’s rights within the name of ideology.
“We stood up because we knew this was mistaken. No woman needs to be forced to choose from her job and her safety. This ruling is a turning point, and we’ll keep fighting until every woman within the NHS is guaranteed the dignity and protection she deserves.”
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