Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Sobbing Upton.

For the moment, let’s set aside NHS Fife’s outrageous contempt for women’s safety that is the central issue of this proceeding. Maybe Upton deserves a little more attention and scrutiny, but not necessarily the kind he’s craving. Let’s pretend that Upton really was as upset as he claims, and as upset as is being claimed on his behalf. Let’s say his sobs weren’t artfully summoned crocodile tears. They don’t say anything good or healthy about him. Clearly his distress wasn’t a matter of his physical safety. Let’s look at the whole question of sex, class, status, and power that Ophelia has been emphasizing here, and his apparent shock at never having been spoken to like that in his entire life. If he’s actually that disturbed and distraught at having his delusional entitlement challenged, maybe he doesn’t have the emotional maturity and stability to be a doctor?

In his professional capacity, he’s supposed to be helping other people, as part of a team of health-care practitioners, not satisfying his own, selfish, fetishistic desires. If he can’t keep the latter out of the former, then perhaps medicine is not the field for him. Maybe both patients and colleagues deserve someone more devoted to the job they’re supposed to be doing, than they are to pleasuring themselves. Maybe NHS Fife should be more invested in protecting their female nursing staff and less in enabling Upton’s kink. Because enabling is what they’re doing if they’re defending and enforcing his “right” to go out of his way, bypassing a more conveniently located changing room, in order to use a space for female nurses, that is never used by female doctors. Without the excuse of a trans “identity”, what Upton did would likely have resulted in a disciplinary procedure against him.

What she did know, however, was that Dr Upton’s right to use the women’s changing room had already been affirmed by senior staff months earlier. Consultants had been told in autumn 2023 that DU—biologically male, in his 20s—was entitled to use the female CR. Yet no similar communication was ever issued to nurses, many of whom used the same space.

Those who granted that permission should be disciplined or sacked, the same for those who failed to communicate this policy to nurses and other female staff who would be subjected to illegal male intrusion as a result.