Darlington nurses win their employment tribunal

These women have been so courageous. What a contrast to all the dodgy people in the NHS openly pushing for women employees to strip in front of men.
There must be some consequences for those in senior leadership signing off on all these predatory / illegal policies.

Far too excited to do any work at the moment! Just had a celebratory cup of tea and twirl

This makes me so, so happy!

When were they on before?

Is this going to be another one of those tribunal cases that newly elected union boss Andrea Egan from Unison will say she's not been following?

(She has a neice identifying as a Trans man and is very much An Ally)

This came across in the TT reporting where the respondent’s lawyer seemed to try and lay traps which they deftly side-stepped.

Apart from the fact that post op women who identify as men don’t have male genitals, there is an exemption under the Equality Act where she could be excluded from female changing rooms (as well as the men’s) it her presence might reasonably distress other female users, without it being gender reassignment discrimination. The SC ruling was clear on that. Of course her employer would have to identify another suitable changing space for her.

Great news! I wonder will there be more of these claims - there are a lot of hospitals with changing rooms across the country...

These women are magnificant, they come across so well in interviews, very smart, decent and articulate. They are such an asset to the cause.

I am reading through the judgment. One sentence that has stuck out for me so far is the tribunal saying that:

"One can have a broad mindset on the rights of transgender people whilst at the same time raise legitimate concerns about the effect of having to share a space while being exposed in one's underwear in the presence of someone of the opposite biological sex" (paragraph 147).

Great decision.

Just a shame we still haven’t had any findings of harassment against individual creepy men. but seems much better and more legally correct than Sandie Peggie’s judgment

This adds more fuel to the fire of trans ideology. Sadly it's not a total win. Whether it will make any difference to the 'brain (if there is one) up the arse' of the likes of Phillipson and Swinney is anyone's guess. I fear it will take yet more litigation and pressure to move these utter deadbeat misogynists.
I'm hoping that the Scottish prisons legal challenge will provide another hammer blow to SNP's hatred of women.

Well done those women!

There is no place for pricks in a women's changing room!

24 mins actually

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002pqgg?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

I’m re listening to world at one, the in depth bit is around 26 mins in. V interesting that they preface it with the pronoun they which rose was apparently happy with in the tribunal so the bbc are using that

Just to be clear, in a lot of these cases there may be different claims put forward so if the court interprets things one way they will find in favour on specific claims, or if they interpret another way they will find in favour of the claimant on other claims. But it would not be expected to find in favour on all claims because the court would not be able to interpret both ways simultaneously.

In regards to the behaviour of RH, a lot of the behaviours were unreasonable because he was in the women’s changing room and that was covered by the finding that it was harassment to have allowed him to be there.

Fantastic news, so happy to see this today.

Surely now all NHS trusts will comply with the law.

< hollow laugh >

About time.
And it's time this madness came to an end and society got some sanity back.

Eugh sounds awful and like harassment

As women, they don't have male genitals. Just as post op transwomen don't have female genitals. They have a facsimile of a penis/vulva-vagina that is in no way functional nor convincing.

Yes, that part is very odd - it definitely seems like sexual harassment.

“By requiring the Claimants to share a changing room with a biological male trans woman…

Read it and weep, TRAs. Read it and weep.

I'm so flipping happy I could cry. Well done those amazing women!

From the op’s link. This is amazing.

In a landmark judgment, an Employment Tribunal has ruled that County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust unlawfully discriminated against and harassed the female nurses by requiring them to share female-only changing rooms with a biological male.
The ruling confirms that the Trust’s policy allowing men into women’s spaces is unlawful and violates the rights of female staff.

In their ruling, Employment Judge Sweeney and Tribunal members Denise Newey Malcolm Brain declared:

“By requiring the Claimants to share a changing room with a biological male trans woman… the Respondent engaged in unwanted conduct related to sex and gender reassignment which had the effect of violating the dignity of the Claimants and creating for the Claimants a hostile, humiliating and degrading environment.

“By not taking seriously and declining to address the Claimants’ concerns of August and September 2023 and of 04 April 2024, regarding that part of the Transition in the Workplace Policy that afforded biological males access to the female changing room, the Respondent engaged in unwanted conduct related to sex and gender reassignment which had the effect of creating for the Claimants a hostile and intimidating environment.”