So it turns out it was a systematic stich up. Boswell Today:

It began with an email. On 29 December 2023, just hours after a fraught exchange in the women’s changing room, Dr. Kate Searle sent a message to every consultant in the Emergency Department. Sandie Peggie, the nurse who had asked Dr. Beth Upton why he was changing clothes in a female-only space, was portrayed in that email as the aggressor. Searle thanked DU for his “composure” and suggested that other, unspecified incidents involving Peggie existed. No such incidents had ever been formally recorded.

Today at the tribunal, cross-examination dismantled the scaffolding on which this claim was built. Naomi Cunningham methodically unpicked the story of a so-called “log” of previous events. When asked directly, Searle admitted she only learned of those other alleged episodes on 29 December – the same day her email to colleagues implied an established pattern. There was no log, no independent corroboration, no risk assessment – only an eagerness to frame Peggie as a serial problem.

Why? Why the eagerness?

My guess is the chance to play a role in a Significant Drama. The maudlin story of Trans Oppression is still a hot ticket, so I suspect that Searle was not unhappy to get a chance to step on that stage. It’s an understandable feeling, and not a bad one provided you are careful to get the facts right. The trouble is that the feeling can make it tricky to get the facts right. It seems that Searle didn’t even try.

That impulse metastasised into the Datix incident report filed by Searle shortly after. Here, the language escalated: Peggie had, it claimed, behaved akin to someone comparing a colleague to a convicted rapist. Yet Searle admitted today, under oath, that Peggie had never used the word “rapist” and had never mentioned Isla Bryson by name. It was an inference – one that transformed an interpersonal disagreement into a formally logged hate incident.

Because a formally logged hate incident is a drama. Get your costume on, Kate, quick, the star is puking her guts out and you’re on in ten minutes!

This isn’t a technical failing. It is narrative manipulation under the guise of safeguarding. Where the facts didn’t suit, interpretations were slotted in to fill the gaps, then weaponised through internal reporting mechanisms. A nurse with 30 years of service was re-cast as an abuser based on the offensive impact that others imagined, not on what was actually said.

The imagination makes it all so much more dramatic and exciting.

I’m not just being flip here; I think this has to be part of the story, because otherwise it makes no sense. I think people have been trained for years to see “transphobia” everywhere, and trained to see it as one of the worst possible things, and trained to consider it the height of righteousness to fly into action at the first hint of “transphobia” within a 5 mile radius.

Cunningham highlighted that the “Datix heat” intensified only after Upton refused to leave the changing room. Peggie had said, repeatedly, that it was a women’s space and Upton was male. For that, she was suspended, interrogated, and accused of bigotry – not by patients, but by colleagues whose language around Upton bristled with reverence.

The tribunal also heard today how Searle convened what one might call an inner circle of sympathy. Her group emails were selective, curated to exclude dissenting views. Peggie was not permitted to discuss the incident with co-workers – a restriction never applied to Upton or his allies.

At every turn, the machinery bent to accommodate a single perspective. Internal procedures became tools of enforcement, not investigation. No one asked why a trans-identifying male was changing in a female-only space without prior policy or consultation. Instead, they asked how best to silence the woman who said no.

Or we could also (or instead) see it as a religious movement. Trans is sacred; women are of the earth earthy and the opposite of sacred. Upton is an ascended angel; Goody Proctor Peggie was seen with the devil.