His human rights
Dr Beth Upton’s birth name will be redacted in official Sandie Peggie documents, the tribunal judge has ruled. The case has restarted for a third time with final submissions being put forward by each legal team before a decision will be made towards the end of the year.
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Born Theodore Upton, the name was used on the General Medical Council register before he was re-registered under his new name, Dr Beth Upton. His legal team claimed that publishing his birth name would be against his human rights and would out him as a trans woman.
Judge Sandy Kemp ruled in his favour, confirming that the submissions can be published but Theodore Upton will be redacted from all of the documents. His full name will now not be included when Ms Peggie’s evidence is made public, as well as submissions from those on her side.
Fabulous; that way no one will ever know or suspect or guess that he’s not a woman.
Ms Peggie’s lawyer Naomi Cunningham asked for the documents to be published in full to promote “open justice” and “freedom of self expression.” But Ms Russell argued that using the Theodore Upton name was “gratuitous and unnecessary” and claimed that it triggered “gender dysphoria.”
Of course it’s not gratuitous and unnecessary, it’s the whole point. The man is not a god damn woman and he has no right to persecute women who don’t want him in their changing rooms. That’s it, that’s the case!
She pointed out that he is not being sued under that name and cited legislation such as the gender recognition law and the Equal Treatment Bench Book to prove her point. She quoted this: “Name or pronouns can be very important to the transperson. It can be a sign of disrespect if transperson is not referred to by them.
Nobody cares.
“No one should be outed, everyone should be treated with courtesy and dignity.” She went on to claim that the “gratuitous dropping of the deadname in the submissions is harmful” to Dr Upton, and using the deadname is “not relevant in this case.”
It’s not gratuitous. Again: the fact that he’s not a woman is central to the hearing. All this cringing and bowing and scraping is how we got here. It is not reasonable or fair for men to order everyone to call them “her”.
But he got his way all the same.
If he uses the changing room to change his clothes, he f*ing outed himself!
I don’t get this insistence on not being “outed as trans.” If they go out of their houses and show themselves in public, it’s obvious, at least 9 times out of 10. There are all these days/weeks/months of celebration and pride for trans people. If they are never “outed,” then who is being celebrated? If it isn’t possible to “out” them — they 100 % pass as the opposite sex — then how will there ever be discrimination based on transgender status?
Dr. Theodore “Beth” Upton outed himself all over his workplace just by showing up.
Agree with maddog. This isn’t about being ‘outed’. It’s about prejudicing the court. If the court refers to him as a woman, and accepts him as a woman, then how can they possibly rule in Ms. Peggie’s favor? Because if he is a woman, he is entitled to use the woman’s space.
But he is not a woman. It is not a ‘deadname’, it’s just a name he used to go under, just as my name (changed my middle name; hated it) is not a ‘deadname’ and anyone would recognize that. I hated my middle name, but if anyone addresses me by it, I am not going to wilt and cry and throw a fit. Depending on the circumstances, if, say, it’s an official document, I might give them a correction, but no creating a fuss.
I am sure they would say that’s not the same, because I didn’t change anything other than a meaningless name. The real problem is, and they know it, neither did they. They are the same people they were before their name change, and moving from ‘Henry’ to ‘Elizabeth’ isn’t going to change that one wit.
It’s a bit late for him to claim anonymity now, isn’t it? I wonder if the judge is letting his team have this since she knows it won’t actually matter. (I certainly hope everyone who encounters this man from now on is fully aware of who he is and what he’s done.)
Even though it’s already too late, Upton is afraid of being outed as a creepy man. As with William Thomas, without the bogus pretext of a supposed “gender identity”, Upton would have been (and still should have been) arrested, just like any other male found in the female nurses’ change room, because, whatever he wears , does, or says, he remains male.
What, is Upton going to read and reread the final report? Fuck off.
And on the strength of his chosen name and pronouns, he violated and disrespected Peggie, and turned her, the true victim in all of this, into the one being investigated, disciplined and punished. Ted DARVO Upton is lucky not to be in jail, where he belongs. He is owed no such “respect”, because it masks his true identity, which is sexual predator.
And with that the judge has outed herself as a gender ideologue and a TRA. I guess she will rule against Sandie Peggie for holding views “not worthy of respect in a democratic society” next.
Not the same as tribunal documents but there was a good Streisand effect with #TheoUpton trending on UK Twitter yesterday.