He was distressed
Is NHS Fife trying to get sent to bed without any supper?
Lawyers for a nurse who complained about sharing a hospital changing room with a trans doctor have condemned an NHS Fife statement on the case as “irresponsible”. The health board published the four-page document online while evidence was being heard in a case brought by nurse Sandie Peggie.
The statement alleged the employment tribunal had triggered “a threat of physical harm and sexual violence” against NHS staff. The matter was raised before the tribunal adjourned for the weekend and Judge Alexander Kemp said he would assess it before making any public comment.
Later, Scotland’s information commissioner criticised NHS Fife and said he may report the board to the Court of Session.
David Hamilton appeared to take exception to the statement setting out in detail the costs of the tribunal so far. He wrote: “On 18 July 2025, NHS Fife released a media statement that referenced the commissioner’s decision 133/2025.
“The petulant tone of NHS Fife’s latest statement is quite remarkable but it is the contents that concern me most. They have now cast doubt upon the assurances they gave me regarding compliance with my decision notice. I will investigate further and if the authority has not indeed fully complied with my decision then I may report the matter to the Court of Session as a contempt of court.”
The wheels of justice grind slowly…
Earlier, the tribunal heard Dr Beth Upton was “distressed” and sobbed while telling a senior colleague about a confrontation with a nurse over the use of female changing rooms.
Dr Elspeth Pitt, who is a consultant in emergency medicine with NHS Fife, told the tribunal Dr Beth Upton – who is a transgender woman – appeared pale and was “very shaken” when they met in a corridor at the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy at the end of their shift.
Oh ffs. The man is a whale. Peggie is quite small. I get that big people can have their feelings hurt, certainly, but I am really not convinced that Upton was so emotionally wounded by Peggie’s preference for a changing room without men in it that he turned pale and trembly and “sobbed” while telling his story. I don’t think he was hurt or upset, I think he was doing whatever he could to destroy Peggie’s life. I think he was angry, not upset or hurt, and he put on an act to get his revenge.
Dr Pitt, who was on call through the night into Christmas morning, was asked what state Dr Upton was in. The consultant replied: “She looked very shaken and she was visibly distressed and upset.” Dr Pitt added Dr Upton looked “quite pale” and “startled”.
The consultant was then told there had been a “very upsetting incident”. Dr Pitt added: “She was really upset. She had felt very fearful and that point felt cornered.”
Cornered by what? A bear? A bull moose in rut? A chainsaw?
Very fearful of what?
The tribunal said the encounter with Ms Peggie had “become very unpleasant and painful for her”. Dr Pitt added: “The gist was that Sandie felt that Dr Upton should not be in the changing room.”
The consultant said she was told the tone of the disagreement was “aggressive” and “unkind”.
Oh yes? Well imagine how Peggie felt, bleeding through her clothes, needing to clean herself up, and finding a god damn man in the room where she needed to do that. Imagine the shame, discomfort, embarrassment, shock, frustration, exasperation – what about her??? Why are all these damn fools so eager to think of huge Upton as the victim and much smaller and female Peggie the snarling villain?
Even if you think Upton had a right to be there, or even if you think Peggie should have asked him nicely to get the fuck out of the women’s room, how can you simply float high above the vast physical discrepancies between them, along with the class and professional rank discrepancies? How can you so thoroughly lose sight of the fact that Upton had and has all the physical and class and political power in this conflict while Peggie is the underdog many times over?
I don’t suppose we’ll ever know.
And that’s the trouble. He is an actor; well, kind of. He is a man trying to act the part of a woman, and as convincingly as he can. However sincere his beliefs, and his effort to play the part of a woman, including inside women-only facilities, he is providing the perfect cover for the heterosexual male rapist intent on carrying out his mission in womens’ rooms while dressed up as a woman.
While using a male public dunny dressed up as a woman, he will not upset too many men. And if he feels embarrassed, well that goes with the territory of show business. Any actor can confirm that for him. There is nothing quite so hilarious as a play that falls to bits on stage, apart from an actor who plays his or her role unconvincingly. And as any thespian will tell you, it takes a clever man to play a fool.
Dr Pitt should be asked if she uses the nurse’s change room. I would be surprised if she’d ever been in there because most hospitals have separate facilities for physicians. And if that’s the case, why didn’t she question what Dr Upton was doing in there, using his position of authority to sexual harass a nurse? His demand that Nurse Peggie accept his presence while she’s half naked is really no different from unwanted sexual advances.
The way female management and physicians fawn over this pervert is astonishing. Ever since the second generation retired and Women’s Studies became Gender Studies, feminism has become an empty shell.
I just came across an article indicating that the question of change rooms was indeed put to Dr Pitt. “Ms Elves [counsel for Peggie] also asked whether Dr Pitt and the other consultants changed with the nurses in the female changing room. She confirmed that she didn’t and neither did the other consultants as ‘in order to get to changing rooms we have to go through the ward, and swipe three doors. There is a toilet right beside our office where we all have our clothes.'” https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/nhs-fife-female-consultants-who-35579159
Ah interesting, thank you for that. So he was actually going out of his way to intrude on the nurses’ changing room, AND he was breaching the doctor/nurse barrier. What an absolute shithead.
I imagine being trembly and tearful is more than just trying to get Sandie in trouble, though that was likely a huge part of it. I suspect it also has to do with his belief that a woman would act like that when she was confronted. It’s all part of his ‘evidence’ that he is, indee, a woman.