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Darlington nurse case flying under the radar

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hardstareglare · 07/11/2025 16:24

Aibu to think that the Darlington nurse case in court right now has not had much press and that it is a very important case.

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hardstareglare · 07/11/2025 17:06

I might be wrong @PrizedPickledPopcorn but I think it takes a strong character to complain in this day and age.

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Boiledbeetle · 07/11/2025 17:06

hardstareglare · 07/11/2025 17:01

Exactly.

Why weren't the women's complaints listen to in either case.

Because HR and all the managers were all too scared to ask the biological man to get out of the women's changing room.

Instead they tried to send the women for re-education and shoved those who still complained in basically a cupboard (that the biological man could also have used it he'd decided to).

A cupboard that wasn't compliant in any manner with current health and safety regulations and was not up to standard with regards fire regulations.

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hardstareglare · 07/11/2025 17:01

Exactly.

Why weren't the women's complaints listen to in either case.

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PrizedPickledPopcorn · 07/11/2025 17:00

What shocked me about this and the Sandie Peggie one was the number of people in the tribunal saying ‘I don’t understand. No one complained!’.

You are in a tribunal. Of course people complained. You just chose to ignore it, and to refuse to deal with it. All those annoying women grumbling at you? The whiny ones that got on your tits and made you have extra meetings? The ones you organised disciplinary processes for? They were complaining.

Boiledbeetle · 07/11/2025 16:59

hardstareglare · 07/11/2025 16:55

Thanks for the links Boiledbeetle I can't do archive links unfortunately.

https://christianconcern.com/cccases/darlington-nurses/

All the details are on the Christian Concern site as well.

The nurses' union wouldn't help them at any stage during their complaint. But did help the biological man raise his complaint about their complaint.

Darlington Nurses - Christian Concern

The Darlington Nurses were told they needed to ‘broaden their mindset’ and be more ‘inclusive’, because they didn’t want to share a changing room with a biological male identifying as a woman.

https://christianconcern.com/cccases/darlington-nurses/

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hardstareglare · 07/11/2025 16:55

Thanks for the links Boiledbeetle I can't do archive links unfortunately.

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Boiledbeetle · 07/11/2025 16:54

The upshot is 300 women were forced to share an NHS hospital changing room with a biological man claiming womanly feelings.

Complaining individually got the women nowhere.

Complaining as a group got the women nowhere.

The women were treated appallingly by the Trust and the result was an Employment Tribunal.

The biological male was finally kicked out of the women's changing room a few months ago.

The women however still face potential disciplinary action after the biological man complained about the women complaining. The investigation was paused until after the Employment Tribunal was held

Boiledbeetle · 07/11/2025 16:46

Tribunal Tweets have live tweeted the whole case.

https://open.substack.com/pub/tribunaltweets/p/eight-nurses-v-county-durham-and?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

They have a load of news media links at the bottom, such as the link below to an archives site version of a Telegraph article.

https://archive.ph/onuEp

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hardstareglare · 07/11/2025 16:35

I'll try and find one.

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itsgettingweird · 07/11/2025 16:27

I’ve not heard of it - which probably proves your point!

Do you have a link to the case?