‘You need to be re-educated’
by Daisy Graham-Brown, Daily Mail:
That’s how a group of NHS nurses say hospital chiefs reacted when they complained that a transgender colleague – who shared their women’s changing room – stared as they got undressed.
When a group of female NHS nurses complained to hospital bosses about the ‘intimidating’ behaviour of a trans colleague in their shared changing room, they may have expected a sympathetic hearing at least.
But not only did officials dismiss the concerns of the long-serving staff members, they allegedly told the nurses they needed to get ‘educated’ and broaden their minds.
It was, the nurses say, an ‘offensive’ response to their legitimate complaints that their colleague’s presence was ‘degrading and humiliating’. They also told the HR department that the 26-year-old stared at their breasts when they were getting undressed and lingered ‘longer than necessary’ in the changing room.
The nurses say their colleague – who is understood not to have had gender reassignment surgery – had told fellow workers at Darlington Memorial Hospital they had stopped taking cross-sex hormones because they were trying to get their girlfriend pregnant and therefore is ‘a sexually active biological male’.
Now, after being dissatisfied with the response from bosses, eight of the nurses are launching an unprecedented employment tribunal against the NHS Trust that employs them, claiming harassment, indirect discrimination, victimisation and human rights violations.
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