Even more punishment
Oh wait, now the NHS is threatening Sandie Peggie with even more punishment for knowing that a man is a man. You’d think they could at least do them one at a time.
A nurse who challenged a trans doctor for using women’s changing rooms is being threatened with the sack by the NHS after “misgendering” her colleague, The Telegraph can reveal.
Sandie Peggie, who brought a landmark employment tribunal against NHS Fife and Dr Beth Upton, is understood to have been told to attend a conduct hearing on Friday which her employer has warned could lead to her dismissal.
They want to fire an experienced nurse because she knows that a man is a man. Wouldn’t you think knowing which sex people are would be pretty crucial in medical work? Wouldn’t you think the bosses would want the nurses to know which is which, as opposed to punishing them for knowing that very basic medical fact?
Experts told The Telegraph that the move from NHS Fife to push ahead with possible dismissal was “extraordinary” given that Jane Russell, the lawyer representing the health board and Dr Upton, had publicly accused the nurse of harassment and bullying towards Dr Upton in tribunal proceedings.
It is claimed that this pre-judged the outcome of the health board’s own investigation process, and would hand Ms Peggie strong legal grounds to challenge the outcome and any sanction.
A senior MSP said it was “beyond belief” that a nurse with three decades of experience was facing the sack for speaking out in defence of single-sex spaces.
It’s beyond belief, it’s evil, and it’s laced with sadism.
Margaret Gribbon, Ms Peggie’s solicitor, said that new legal proceedings had now been launched against NHS Fife as a result of their actions.
Git him.
“I can confirm that the handling of the investigation and the decision to proceed to a disciplinary hearing with the allegations will now be the subject of separate legal proceedings in the employment tribunal against Fife Health Board,” Ms Gribbon said.
Doesn’t make you want to move to Fife, does it.
The nurse has been told she could receive a final written warning, alternatives to dismissal or be fired.
Murdo Fraser, Scottish Tory MSP, said SNP ministers now had serious questions to answer about how the case had been handled. It emerged on Sunday that Neil Gray, the SNP health secretary, was warned in 2024 that NHS Fife was failing to meet its legal obligations to provide single-sex facilities but apparently failed to act.
“It is beyond belief that this dedicated nurse who has given 30 years of service to the NHS is now potentially facing the sack,” Mr Fraser said. “This sorry saga exposes the stark reality of the Sturgeon-era extremist trans agenda where those who speak out in defence of women and girls’ rights to access single-sex facilities are the ones who are wrongly punished.
“Sandie Peggie has been failed by NHS Fife as well as SNP ministers who have turned a blind eye to this issue and serious questions must be answered about the handling of this case.”
Swiftly, please.
I say we nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
Too much? I’m sure their are some decent people in Fife outside of NHS administration.
Speaking of which, to whom are these sadistic bastards at Fife NHS accountable? How is it that their own conduct hasn’t yet resulted in their receiving a final written warning, alternatives to dismissal, or being fired? Or are they just making good on their final opportunity to punish Peggie before they themselves are shit-canned? Whatever the answer is, I hope that Peggie wins, and that those who have acted and are still acting against her are removed from their positions. Otherwise, they will likely find some other method of taking it out on her.
How can they do that, while a tribunal on that very issue is still ongoing?
How indeed. Many are asking.
Where I live, in Edinburgh, the Kingdom of Fife, just across the Firth of Forth, is treated joshingly as the bad lands. A colleague says, I have to go to Fife for a meeting. Ach, you’ll still be able to see Edinburgh, someone says.
(When I have ventured the 15 miles or so to go there, everyone I’ve met has been as pleasant and friendly as they are in other places.)
Good to know the NHS is so flush with good employees they can afford to be so picky…