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Employment Tribunal Case to Protect Single-Sex Facilities at Work

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FayeRC · 06/09/2024 13:39

Dear Mumsnet Members,

I have issued an employment tribunal complaint against NHS England to protect single-sex facilities at work.

A preliminary hearing will be held in early October 2024. I would be very grateful for some urgent gardening support at CrowdJustice. I won't add a link here as it is against Mumsnet rules.

It would be interesting to hear other people's views on legislation around single-sex facilities at WORK. However, I won't be commenting much on this public forum whilst the case is on-going.

Yours faithfully,
Faye Russell-Caldicott / FayeRC

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anyolddinosaur · 04/03/2026 09:45

Pleased to see the fundraiser has gone up a bit but it's still a long way from target.

If you pay your council tax by monthly direct debit some councils do this over 10 months so might mean a bit more slack in the budget this month? Even £5 a person mounts up.

Citrusandginger · 04/03/2026 10:11

Good luck with it Faye. I’m rooting for you.

ProfPerformativeBewildermentOBE · 04/03/2026 11:19

Gardening done.

More power to you OP, good luck 👍🏼

anyolddinosaur · 04/03/2026 11:39

Cases that TT report on often get donations during the court case so hopefully this will be going further and faster then.

DontStopMe · 04/03/2026 11:52

Good luck, Faye.

ShinyBlueTractor · 04/03/2026 14:41

Donated

Davros · 04/03/2026 17:03

I gardened earlier today. Good luck.

borntobequiet · 04/03/2026 17:24

Donated and bumping.

Bluebootsgreenboots · 04/03/2026 17:42

Gardened, thx for reminder.

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FayeRC · 05/03/2026 08:34

Yikes, still have not got access to disclosure materials from the other side, seven working days before final hearing starts.

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borntobequiet · 05/03/2026 08:42

Any idea why not? Incompetence, deliberately messing you around, other?

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FayeRC · 05/03/2026 08:54

Probably the size of the organisation is not helping.

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Rightsraptor · 05/03/2026 09:01

FayeRC · 05/03/2026 08:34

Yikes, still have not got access to disclosure materials from the other side, seven working days before final hearing starts.

Won't that be viewed unfavourably by the court? Unfavourable to the other side, I mean. Although you are greatly handicapped by it, of course

I just cannot get my head around all the organisations wilfully ignoring the law especially after Darlington, as you say. It beggars belief.

Women's Rights Network have just produced a document listing all the local councils of differing types and whether or not they're compliant. Loads aren't. Just - WTAF???

anyolddinosaur · 05/03/2026 13:01

Courts are not happy about late disclosure but happens a lot. Do we know who is representing the other side?

Keeptoiletssafe · 05/03/2026 13:01

You are safer and healthier in single sex cubicles.

health: https://salus.global/article-show/pathogen-findings-raise-concerns-about-move-to-unisex-hospital-facilities

There are no examples of safer and healthier gender-neutral toilets in the world, let alone the nhs.

This photo is a swanky ‘genderless’ set in Japan, opening in April 2023 then in May 2023. The partition separated the sexes as there were so many complaints. They were closed in the July, remodeled and in August reopened as single sex with one or two ‘multiuse’ toilets that were open to disabled.

I have done a lot of research on school toilets, and originally schools were not allowed unisex toilets as the DfE said ‘no’ due to religion. A few years later that didn’t seem to be a problem. https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/05/education.schools

Now school girls and vulnerable children with health and medical issues are paying the cost.

Employment Tribunal Case to Protect Single-Sex Facilities at Work
Ereshkigalangcleg · 05/03/2026 14:02

FayeRC · 04/03/2026 09:37

A broad summary of events:

  • A male colleague transitioned in 2022. We were told the person would use facilities of their preference. Staff in my Directorate were told what was expected from us and this was in effect immediately.
  • We had open plan changing room and showers and usual cubicle toilets.
  • I am an actual woman, Muslim, gender critical and have PTSD. I cannot share facilities with males.
  • Following this, I raised in 2022 that facilities were effectively mixed sex. NHSE disagreed and said they were offering single-sex facilities for those born female and those who identified as female.
  • Raising these issues internally was extremely difficult for me and did not lead to any changes to staff policy. I argued ‘sex’ in EqAct 2010 meant biological and therefore could not include males who identified as women. They did not agree. Their interpretation was that if even one transwoman was excluded from female facilities that was discrimination on the basis of gender reassignment. I did tell them nearly all transwomen retained their penis and those who had it removed were males nevertheless.
  • I was effectively pushed out from female facilities to use gender neutral toilets which I have continued to use to date.
  • One would have thought Fife, Darlington and SC ruling were helpful but they have not prompted any changes to policy to date.
  • After SC ruling an all staff announcement was made in support of everyone, including those with trans supportive views and ‘other views’. Policy was put on hold and under review but not removed. It remains so for nearly a year later.
  • They have been waiting for EHRC guidance (on public service provision). I have told them they are waiting for a wrong piece of guidance. This is an employer-employee matter.
  • Policy was created with support from trade unions, Stonewall and GIRES. No women’s organisations, trauma support organisations or religious organisations were involved in policy drafting.

The tribunal hearing is fast approaching - it is only one and a half weeks away! I would be forever grateful for your support in the last stint before 16 March. The best way to help is by sharing the link to my CrowdJustice this week. Pls search for 'Faye Russell-Caldicott'. Thank you ❤

Thank you!

ThatsNeat · 05/03/2026 14:13

Donated

SinnerBoy · 05/03/2026 14:41

I hope you get the disclosure ASAP. If not, your legal team needs to make a meal of if to the judge. How can you possibly be prepared, if they haven't supplied it?

It's got shades of Fife, re Sandie Peggie.

Shit heads.

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FayeRC · 06/03/2026 08:41

Wow wow wow some of the things said in these emails! I've been trawling through some of their materials I now have access to. We're going to have a field day.

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DontStopMe · 06/03/2026 08:50

Excellent news, Faye.

nauticant · 06/03/2026 08:53

@FayeRC, do you have any idea whether the hearing is going to be made available to be viewed online by the public?

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FayeRC · 06/03/2026 09:19

@nauticant Tribunal Tweets only, no direct online access.

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nauticant · 06/03/2026 10:31

Thanks. I thought that would be the case with anonimity in place.

anyolddinosaur · 06/03/2026 11:07

Who is representing them, Faye?

Hoping the crowdfunder will go over the 30k soon.

GargoylesofBeelzebub · 06/03/2026 12:23

FayeRC · 06/03/2026 08:41

Wow wow wow some of the things said in these emails! I've been trawling through some of their materials I now have access to. We're going to have a field day.

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