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ClassSize2022 · 20/07/2022 05:11

Should not have been in the ladies changing room? Especially if naked from the waist down.

I can imagine being very frightened in this situation as a biological woman having to share a changing room with a man.

NHS transgender worker wins payout after boss asked about underwear

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/3e15f7c2-0779-11ed-a986-fc91b4ad48f0?shareToken=b22ada0c3a8e04d703e4eb229fb47802

transgender worker wins payout after boss asked about underwear www.thetimes.co.uk/article/3e15f7c2-0779-11ed-a986-fc91b4ad48f0?shareToken=b22ada0c3a8e04d703e4eb229fb47802 Times article

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Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/07/2022 11:45

A full year before this allegation, the TW overheard two colleagues plotting to stitch her up.

Well, that's what they say. No evidence from anywhere else, though. Just from the claimant.

Discovereads · 20/07/2022 11:46

knittingaddict · 20/07/2022 11:31

No
You don’t have to “see” anything to know someone is naked from the waist down

Yes, you do. How else?

Can't believe I'm having this conversation.

Can’t believe I have to repeat myself. You’re in a changing room. Someone is on the toilet. You hear piss or shit hitting the pan….is that person naked from the waist down or fully clothed and teleporting their shit/piss into the toilet? In the same changing room someone comes out of the shower wrapped in a towel and goes into a cubicle. The towel is then flung over the top of the door…is the person behind the door naked or not?

Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/07/2022 11:47

Even then given the comments made by the TW about them taking off their underwear and the comment made that a staff member had seen them naked from the waist down it could be argued that the questions were relevant.

It is extremely relevant and it should have been much better argued. No Ben Cooper here!

Discovereads · 20/07/2022 11:48

Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/07/2022 11:45

A full year before this allegation, the TW overheard two colleagues plotting to stitch her up.

Well, that's what they say. No evidence from anywhere else, though. Just from the claimant.

Again, the Tribunal found it to have happened. I’m going by what the Tribunal decided as they interviewed and cross examined all the people involved so are really best placed to make a judgement on veracity.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/07/2022 11:49

That explains why this person was allowed to access womens changing rooms, and why women weren’t consulted ,but told this would happen regardless.

And then "educated".

BoredofthisCrap7 · 20/07/2022 11:51

"Can’t believe I have to repeat myself. You’re in a changing room. Someone is on the toilet. You hear piss or shit hitting the pan….is that person naked from the waist down or fully clothed and teleporting their shit/piss into the toilet? In the same changing room someone comes out of the shower wrapped in a towel and goes into a cubicle. The towel is then flung over the top of the door…is the person behind the door naked or not?"

But the women are NOT talking about those situations! Don't be obtuse.
They are talking about being naked from the waist down in the COMMON area of the changing room. In view of other people.
Against their wishes.
Against the "agreement" that was in place.

knittingaddict · 20/07/2022 11:51

Can’t believe I have to repeat myself. You’re in a changing room. Someone is on the toilet. You hear piss or shit hitting the pan….is that person naked from the waist down or fully clothed and teleporting their shit/piss into the toilet? In the same changing room someone comes out of the shower wrapped in a towel and goes into a cubicle. The towel is then flung over the top of the door…is the person behind the door naked or not?

😂

So the complaints were about someone who they couldn't see being naked from the waist down? If that wasn't the complaint, and I'm sure it wasn't, then you are tying yourself in knots trying to excuse this. Why?

Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/07/2022 11:52

Again, the Tribunal found it to have happened. I’m going by what the Tribunal decided as they interviewed and cross examined all the people involved so are really best placed to make a judgement on veracity.

I know what the tribunal found. You can have your opinion, and I'll have mine.

Discovereads · 20/07/2022 11:53

Conflictedunicorn · 20/07/2022 11:27

why would I be looking at someone’s genitals @Discovereads ? Really? Are you condoning ogling now! You are now accusing these women of staring at the TW genitals? On what proof?

You’re really making a stretch here. Someone complained a male person was naked from the waist down in the female changing area. Males have penises, therefore a penis was seen.

Really, you’re going to use the “I never look at that region, I always avert my eyes” argument regarding a clothed male but then say with assurance that you’d be definitely ogling an unclothed males genital region?

I don’t agree a penis was definitely seen. “Naked from waist down in the changing room” is too vague. And if a penis had been seen why didn’t the woman just say she was flashed?

CrossStichQueen · 20/07/2022 11:53

You’re correct. The TW was bullied from first day of work until they went off sick due to the stress on 13 August 2020.

No the TW started work on the 13th July. The conversation and 1st note was the 28th July.
It appears the work related stress was not due to the note/conversation but due to the trust encouraging the TW to commit to more hours as previously agreed by the TW as shown by the meetings held to discuss it at the beginning of August.

She also said that the changing room incident was not the only incident she suffered at work

Which the TW provided no description or evidence of despite quickly informing management of the previous incidents.

Rainbowshit · 20/07/2022 11:53

Can’t believe I have to repeat myself. You’re in a changing room. Someone is on the toilet. You hear piss or shit hitting the pan….is that person naked from the waist down or fully clothed and teleporting their shit/piss into the toilet? In the same changing room someone comes out of the shower wrapped in a towel and goes into a cubicle. The towel is then flung over the top of the door…is the person behind the door naked or not? this has to be one of the stupidest things I've ever read on mumsnet. Absolutely cringing for you that you're wrapping yourself up in knots like that.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/07/2022 11:54

And no they didn't "cross examine all the people involved" because they never found the supposed people who did it.

Rainbowshit · 20/07/2022 11:54

knittingaddict · 20/07/2022 11:51

Can’t believe I have to repeat myself. You’re in a changing room. Someone is on the toilet. You hear piss or shit hitting the pan….is that person naked from the waist down or fully clothed and teleporting their shit/piss into the toilet? In the same changing room someone comes out of the shower wrapped in a towel and goes into a cubicle. The towel is then flung over the top of the door…is the person behind the door naked or not?

😂

So the complaints were about someone who they couldn't see being naked from the waist down? If that wasn't the complaint, and I'm sure it wasn't, then you are tying yourself in knots trying to excuse this. Why?

It's just astonishing isn't it? TRAs aren't known for their logic though.

PurpleDaisies · 20/07/2022 11:56

Discovereads · 20/07/2022 11:46

Can’t believe I have to repeat myself. You’re in a changing room. Someone is on the toilet. You hear piss or shit hitting the pan….is that person naked from the waist down or fully clothed and teleporting their shit/piss into the toilet? In the same changing room someone comes out of the shower wrapped in a towel and goes into a cubicle. The towel is then flung over the top of the door…is the person behind the door naked or not?

Utterly disingenuous. I can’t believe you’ve made that case in a serious way.

You know that was not what was alleged.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/07/2022 11:56

Absolutely cringing for you that you're wrapping yourself up in knots like that.

How shall I say it, this is not this poster's first rodeo.

Conflictedunicorn · 20/07/2022 11:58

Rainbowshit · 20/07/2022 11:54

It's just astonishing isn't it? TRAs aren't known for their logic though.

To be honest, I’m loving @Discovereads attempts to prove that a woman complaining about seeing a penis in an area where no penises should be didn’t actually see the penis, but the person with the penis was naked by using the toilet or shower. It’s actually getting funnier with each post.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/07/2022 11:59

The facts are it was a conversation nobody else heard and the women were not identified. It was 1 note nobody saw and another which again could not be used to identify the writer.
There was no campaign to force the TW out and the fact is the TW chose to resign not because of those 3 incidents but because they were rightly been taken through the absence management procedure.

YY.

HackneyMum1 · 20/07/2022 12:00

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Completely agree. Absolutely vile. Views like this are the reason that suicide rates are so high amongst trans people. Imagine how difficult it must be to be trans and for people to equate your existence with sex offenders.

Are there are any stats on the frequency of attacks on women by transwomen in female changing rooms / women-only spaces? I'm just wondering how often it actually happens? Genuinely interested in what it is that seems to result in such "fear" amongst gender critical mumsnetters.

Rainbowshit · 20/07/2022 12:01

@Conflictedunicorn I'm also finding it highly amusing. You just have to let them talk don't you? It's very revealing.

Discovereads · 20/07/2022 12:03

Rainbowshit · 20/07/2022 11:28

No the Tribunal judgement doesn’t indicate the TW is “not the type to stick to an agreement”. But go on making things up.

They agreed to work full time then broke that agreement. There's evidence littered throughout it that they did not have a track record of sticking to an agreement.

No she didn’t break any agreement.

The TW is disabled and was returning to FT work:
”The Respondents admit that the Claimant was disabled at all relevant times because of both of those matters and they admit that they knew she was at all relevant times.”

At the Occupational Health review it was noted
”She had not worked for several years and was also experiencing some anxieties about returning to the workforce and her hours of work.The OH advisor recommended meeting the Claimant before she started work to discuss any support that was required.”

“At their meeting on 12 May 2020, the Claimant asked if she could start work 15 hours per week and gradually build up her hours to full-time, because she had not been in employment for so long. Mr Swallow agreed to look into it, and it was subsequently agreed that she could build up to full-time over four weeks.”

She started work on 13 July. By 28 July she’d been the victim of two transphobic incidents and was put on excused absences by management as the investigations were done until going off sick from the stress on 13 Aug. She never had the chance to phase in to full time work at that location.

CrossStichQueen · 20/07/2022 12:03

Why is the TW claim that a conversation happened that nobody else heard and there is no evidence of be believed but a womans claim that she saw a penis in the female changing room isn't despite the fact that we know its likely there was a penis in the female changing room given the fact that the TW still has theirs and used said female changing room?

I mean the TW claimed to not have recieved an apology for the dummy comment then produced a secret recording of a meeting where the person who made the dummy comment can be heard clearly apologising again.....

Rainbowshit · 20/07/2022 12:04

Imagine how difficult it must be to be trans and for people to equate your existence with sex offenders

Hmm it's not the existence that's the issue it's the indecent exposure. How about don't flash your fucking cock at unwilling females and then there will be nothing to report.

Conflictedunicorn · 20/07/2022 12:05

Rainbowshit · 20/07/2022 12:01

@Conflictedunicorn I'm also finding it highly amusing. You just have to let them talk don't you? It's very revealing.

Oh yes. I’m just waiting for discoverreads, who seems to have er departed. to pop off and the next TRA join in. I think they tag team when they get tired.

YetAnotherSpartacus · 20/07/2022 12:05

The facts are it was a conversation nobody else heard and the women were not identified. It was 1 note nobody saw and another which again could not be used to identify the writer.
There was no campaign to force the TW out and the fact is the TW chose to resign not because of those 3 incidents but because they were rightly been taken through the absence management procedure.

I really, really hope that the NHS appeal.

Rainbowshit · 20/07/2022 12:05

Do you agree @Discovereads that if a penis is on display in a female changing room than that is unacceptable?