Suzanne Moore on the Sandie Peggie tribunal:

[Dr “Beth”] Upton had begun transitioning in 2022 but claimed to be both “distressed” and “afraid”. If you’ve ever been physically assaulted or intimidated, you’ll know what it’s like to truly feel that way. But Peggie is small – and Upton is certainly not.

I have been, and I do know. Peggie is small and Upton is huge, plus he has the Trans Army behind him. I don’t believe for a second that he felt distressed or afraid. My bet is on sadistic glee.

Nevertheless, Peggie was suspended by her managers and faced a disciplinary hearing. Somehow, in these cases, it’s always the woman who says no who ends up being portrayed as threatening and bullying. The gender cult demands unquestioning acceptance of the idea that trans people are always victims.

Along with the idea that they are always more “marginalized” and persecuted and intimidated and bullied and yadda yadda than women are. It’s a core part of the Steal Everything approach to women that makes trans dogma such fun.

NHS Fife wanted to keep this quiet. Understandably. They sought to keep Upton anonymous and have the upcoming hearing held in private. Neither of these things happened, which is just as well, because what’s being exposed is a muddle of mismanagement and deep stupidity.

The board of NHS Fife also did not want to disclose how much this has all cost, but they have been forced to: £220,000 up until the adjournment in February. Another 11 days of hearings could push costs up towards £1 million. The taxpayer, remember, is paying for both Upton’s and NHS Fife’s defence.

The socialism of huge men in skirts.

Currently we are in a situation where many of our institutions are so immersed in gender ideology that they cannot respond to the actual needs of women. Or, indeed, correctly and swiftly interpret the law.

This immersion, though, was never organic – it did not come from a place of wanting fairness for everyone. If it did, I would support it.

The truth is that it has been imposed from on high as a response to intense lobbying and acquiescence to activist demands.

One can see this particularly in the case of the BBC, whose top brass started taking meetings with Stonewall activists in 2012. Everyone was sold on the idea of trans rights being the new civil rights and a symbol of being cutting edge.

This is how the full-scale abandonment of both women’s rights and any notion of safeguarding has been enacted by supposedly progressive institutions – in the name of some non-specific idea of modernity. It has been appalling.

And where do we end up? With public money being spent to fight a working-class nurse who doesn’t want to get undressed in front of a man? How is this right?

The emperor is naked. We have long known that. Let him parade his nakedness in his own special cubicle. Get out of ours!

And stay out!