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UK: Nurse Wins Harassment Claim in NHS Changing Room Row

UK: Nurse Wins Harassment Claim in NHS Changing Room Row

UK: Nurse Wins Harassment Claim in NHS Changing Room Row
Above: Sandie Peggie departs the tribunal in Dundee, Scotland, on July 16, 2025. Image credit: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

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NHS Fife harassed a courageous nurse who stood up for women's sex-based rights after she objected to sharing a changing room with a male colleague. The health board shamefully tried to silence her, dragged out the investigation for an unreasonable length of time and squandered taxpayers' money defending their indefensible actions. Women shouldn't need bravery to tell employers that men have no place in spaces designed for female safety, dignity and privacy.

The tribunal unanimously dismissed all allegations against Dr Upton and nearly all claims against the board, finding insufficient evidence that trans women pose greater risk in changing rooms than other women. Trans equality is part of the fight for women's equality since both cis and trans women face systemic misogyny and gendered violence. Rigid gender policing such as this ruling sets feminism back decades and upholds patriarchy by determiningundermining whichintersectional types of women are validprogress.

ThereThe istribunal aunanimously 17.5%dismissed chanceall allegations against Dr Upton and nearly all claims against the board, finding insufficient evidence that antrans openlywomen LGBTQpose persongreater willrisk bein electedchanging Presidentrooms than other women. Trans equality is part of the Unitedfight Statesfor bywomen's 2041,equality accordingsince toboth thecis Metaculusand predictiontrans communitywomen face systemic misogyny and gendered violence. Rigid gender policing such as this ruling sets feminism back decades and upholds patriarchy by undermining intersectional progress.

Metaculus Prediction

There is a 17.5% chance that an openly LGBTQ person will be elected President of the United States by 2041, according to the Metaculus prediction community.


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