by Lauren Smith, spiked
A nurse is fighting for her job after she ‘misgendered’ a sex offender, who then racially abused her.
If a six-foot-tall convicted paedophile racially abused a black female nurse, who would you expect the NHS to defend? Incredibly, the Epsom and St Helier University Hospital Trust has allegedly taken the side of the racist paedo. All because the criminal in question identifies as transgender and the nurse in question ‘misgendered’ him.
Last year, nurse Jennifer Melle was treating the man, referred to only as ‘Patient X’ in legal documents, at St Helier Hospital in Carshalton, Surrey. X had been brought in from a high-security men’s prison, physically restrained and accompanied by two security guards.
Melle left the room to speak with a doctor on the phone about removing X’s catheter – a medical procedure that, obviously, requires all parties to be crystal clear about the biological sex of the patient. During the conversation, Melle referred to X as ‘mister’ and ‘he’. She claims that he overheard this and became upset.