Will Darlington Memorial Hospital ever just do what it’s told? It seems not.

Further pressure has been placed on Darlington Memorial Hospital to “comply” with same sex policies as nurses remain locked in a legal battle over a transgender woman using their changing room.

County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation trust, alongside others across the country will be made to comply with a Supreme Court ruling moved forward last month that defines gender as “biological”.

When? And why won’t they just do it, without waiting to be “made” to do it?

I suppose it’s the usual answer: because women don’t matter, while a handful of men who pretend to be women do matter, matter infinitely, matter more than 5 or 10 or 100 times as many women.

Now, it has emerged that the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) previously stated the trust is “breaking the law by failing to provide single-sex changing rooms for its female staff”.

Well you see that’s because women don’t matter. Please make a note of it and don’t forget again.

“The RCN expects the Trust to comply with these statutory provisions and provide single sex changing rooms without delay. It would seem reasonable that that the alternative changing room provision that some women are currently using, would be the obvious choice for a gender neutral changing space.”

You remember that “alternative changing room provision” – a small closet-like room that opens directly onto a busy corridor. The women are supposed to use that so that the men can luxuriate in the actual changing room for women.

In response to the RCN’s letter, a spokesperson for County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust told The Northern Echo: “The Trust is engaged in open discussions with the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in response to their letter.”

The hell with “discussions” – there’s nothing to discuss. Obey the god damn law.

“This is a complex and sensitive matter involving not only our internal policies and procedures but also wider national guidance and legislation.”

No. it. isn’t. It’s not complex at all. It’s revoltingly simple. Men get whatever they can grab no matter what, and women must accept whatever leftover crumbs are thrown at them. That has to change. Simple.

The letter has not gone unnoticed by Darlington nurse and President of the Darlington Nursing Union, Bethany Hutchison, who says despite its efforts, there has been “no sign of action”.

“We appreciate the letter from the Royal College of Nursing, but it has been a month now and there has been no sign of any action, quite the opposite in fact.

“We recognise how captured the NHS has been by extreme Stonewall policies, but unfortunately the law is the law. There can be no excuses for any further dragging of feet.

“We are still having to use what we were told 10 months ago would be a ‘temporary’ converted office to change in. A man continues to use the female staff changing room with impunity.”

It doesn’t take ten months to tell an entitled bully of a man to gtf out of the women’s changing room and stay out.