Edinburgh employment tribunal says no to trans anonymity order

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An employment tribunal in Edinburgh has rejected a plea by Fife Health Board and a trans-identifying doctor for an employment tribunal case to be heard in private, and for the doctor’s identity to be anonymised.

Employment Judge Tinnion emphasised that:

“potential public scrutiny of a witness’ evidence is an important part of the open justice principle, and it is right that witnesses should be aware of that when giving evidence as it provides an important incentive to give honest, truthful evidence.”

The employment tribunal claim is being brought by Sandie Peggie, a female A&E nurse at the Victoria Hospital in Kirkaldy, who was was suspended and then placed under a disciplinary
investigation for a year after she objected to sharing a “women’s” changing room with her male colleague, Dr Beth Upton.

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“Thinks mixed sex open public space (a courtroom) should give him extra special privacy because what?”

Perhaps this male junior doctor, who self-describes as a woman, is concerned that the publicity will allow female patients, who don’t want certain procedures to be performed by a male doctor, to check in advance which doctor will be treating them and say no if it’s going to be a Dr Upton?

There was the case of that GP (in a surgery with a lot of patients from a conservative religion) who mentioned access to patients who wouldn’t see a male GP as one of the post-transition positives (for the GP) of self-describing as a woman.