So Doctor “ Beth “ Upton is off to pastures new , leaving a large ongoing bill for NHS Fife

I am so sorry Australia

Its bad wording by both of us.

@Scoffingbiscuits post is about the Scottish legislation which was designed to have a specific hire and training policy.

In effect the service should match its hire policy to the victim sex profile. So the obligation is to match the need to the provision. So same idea as the breast cancer screening service only hire female front line staff

So if say 70% of victims wanted the medic to only be female the service can discriminate and only hire women until they have the 70% and thereafter hire from the total pool of qualified people.

Scottish TRA wanted the legislation to say gender so service would be able to fill the 70% need in provision by the hire of men who claimed to be female.

So if the victim said women only and she did not realise it was a male and more importantly was not informed by anybody in the room he would be sent into court to give evidence on his acts.

The theory being he could not be charged for a sexual assault as it was a medical act carried out after informed consent was obtained and the Act allows his claim to be a woman to stand.

Fucking hell.

Yes. Exactly.

And my very point was that Dr Upton considers that he should be classed as a female medical examiner in those circumstances, whereas people in my circumstances rely on Drs having integrity and acceptance that informed consent is important and respecting that a request for a female medic is a request for a biological female medic, not someone like him.

Bollocks.
His, mainly.

Oh FFS. We don’t want him here. Can we have Sandie instead? We always need more nurses, especially experienced ones.

I assume he’ll be heading for Melbourne or at least Victoria. It’s the centre of all of the gender ideology crap in this country.

It's very, very worrying that someone with those views is qualified to practise medicine. Either he actually believes it, in which case he is either mentally ill or of very low intelligence, or he is saying it for other reasons, which means he's a manipulative liar. None of those is good.

I think that you are wrong.

"If you are medically examined for
forensic evidence this can only
happen if you consent (unless you are
unconscious) and will be conducted
by a specially trained doctor or nurse.
You can ask for a male or female
doctor."

https://www.rightsofwomen.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/survivors-of-sexual-violence-rights-at-a-glance-digital.pdf

“The term biologically female or biologically male is completely nebulous. It has no defined or agreed meaning in science, as far as I’m aware. I’m not a robot, so I am biological and my identity is female. Without wanting to appeal to the dictionary too much, I’m biologically female"

Said the man who will never have to worry about contraception or giving birth and whose heterosexual marriage is recognised everywhere in the world.

Why are you calling a male doctor, who believes that humans can change sex "her"? Doesn't it alarm you, that any doctor who believes that he can change from a male to a female, should not be trusted and certainly shouldn't be practicing medicine?

In his judgment, the judge said that Upton was a "credible witness".

And the judge turned out to be a non-credible judge.

What ‘her’ do you mean?

his empathy is lacking, he has lied about sex on the stand, and he made fraudulent complaints about Sandie Peggie. What a prince of a man.

Absolutely he did. It was so gloriously whacky I saved the quote from the Daily Telegraph:

Dr Upton replied: “The term biologically female or biologically male is completely nebulous. It has no defined or agreed meaning in science, as far as I’m aware. I’m not a robot, so I am biological and my identity is female. Without wanting to appeal to the dictionary too much, I’m biologically female.”
......
Dr Upton added: “Not all those things are what you might call concordant with the other. There are very few people who don’t think understanding of some aspect of somebody’s biology is important in some situations. But there is no agreed definition of biological sex. It’s a nebulous dog whistle.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/10/im-biologically-female-insists-trans-nhs-doctor-born-male/

In his judgment, the judge said that Upton was a "credible witness".

Funny old world.

Sadly I think you are right. Australia is a basket case. Poor female patients/staff.

He did. He lied in court. And it came to light that he doctored his 'contemporaneous notes'.

@PithyViewer. Upton is a man . Born male and will die male.

I don’t know where you are but most are open 24/7 as they’re a forensic service.

If a SARC is not available and you have to go to A&E you still have the right to ask for a female doctor and wait for an available one.

It's already being framed on X as 'forced to flee the NHS because of transphobia'.

I agree that there is hardly anything unusual about a recently qualified doctor moving from the UK to Australia.

I think anyone who suggests that sex is a wibbly wobbly thing that nobody can define should be struck off. It suggests a sexist, privileged dismissal of the reasons that we bother to define sex and a lack the necessary intelligence required to treat patients, but from what I hear of Australia, Dr Upton's presence won't make things much worse.

That’s not always the case. The SARCS here is only available 9am-9pm (at that time it was mon-Fri, but now is 7 days) so I wasn’t sent there, I was dealt with at the hospital as things couldn’t wait until 9am.

Good riddance. Hes Australia's problem now. Although ive heard that they are pretty much ,"captured "
Good luck Oz!!

Not even contemporaneous notes either. Sad times.

When I was a DC in Hampshire, the primary SARC doctor for one of the major cities was male, and transitioned to become a trans woman who continued to work as the primary doctor.... That was as recent as 2015. I hope he's not still there.

I hope Dr Upton never works in medicine again. He maliciously reported a hardworking colleague to his manager, he showed himself willing to ignore a female patient's request for a female doctor, and under cross-examination, by describing himself as a biological woman, he was either lying or displaying a quite remarkable ignorance of biological facts that would shame a five-year old.

Rape victims are sent to SARCS Sexual Assault Referral Centres

You absolutely have the right to request an examination by female doctor and have the choice to wait if one is not currently available.