It just keeps getting worse. This one takes the breath away. Daniel Sanderson in The Times:

One of Sandie Peggie’s bosses wanted her to be reported to police for confronting a transgender doctor in a hospital’s female changing rooms.

A male doctor, god damn it. The problem was not “transgender”; the problem was male. Peggie did not want to have to take her clothes off in front of a man.

So anyway – for the crime of not wanting to undress in front of a man, one of Peggie’s bosses thought the police should be called. Not to arrest the man spying on the woman, of course, but to arrest the woman telling the man to get out. Welcome to 1890.

Peggie confronted Upton in the women’s changing rooms at the A&E department at Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy, on Christmas Eve 2023, telling Upton she believed they had no right to be there. 

What, both of them?

She believed he had no right to be there. Because he’s a he.

Previously, the tribunal was told on several occasions that Upton had discussed with senior colleagues the possibility of reporting to police what was viewed internally at NHS Fife as a potential hate crime.

However, it was not previously apparent that figures within NHS Fife were actively encouraging the step.

It’s so filthy.

On December 30, 2023, days after the Christmas Eve row between Peggie and Upton, Doyle emailed a number of colleagues to tell them he had found the doctor’s initial formal report of the incident, which it emerged had been typed by the A&E consultant Kate Searle, “very difficult” to read.

The report, known within the Scottish NHS as a Datix, described a “hate incident” concerning “transgender identity” and claimed that Peggie’s “aggressive and confrontational manner” was an “escalation of prior behaviours”.

He endorsed placing Peggie on “special leave”, meaning she could not return to work, and described the incident as a “potential hate crime” that was “not acceptable” and not to be “tolerated in any circumstance”.

Doyle added: “Such incidents should also be reported to Police Scotland, which I believe the staff member raising [the] complaint has been advised to consider, and we could also support if needed.”

Because a woman didn’t want a man in the room when she changed her clothes.

Tess White, the Scottish Conservative equalities spokeswoman, said the emails offered “further alarming evidence of the witch-hunt” against Peggie. White claimed the nurse, who had 30 years of previously unblemished service, had been “vilified by bosses at NHS Fife for standing up for her rights”.

“The behaviour of her employers is frankly indefensible,” White said. “Who in their right mind would think it’s appropriate to call the police because a female nurse didn’t want to share a changing room with a biological man?”

Well exactly! It’s grotesque!