MON THE NURSES!!!!!! Royal College of Nurses supports the Darlington Nurses!

[ArabellaScott]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/15/nhs-trust-breaking-law-trans-row-royal-college-nursing/

'The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) accused the County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust of breaching workplace health and safety law by not prohibiting a trans nurse from using female changing rooms.
The union intervened amid a legal battle between the trust and eight of its nurses, who are opposing its decision to allow Rose Henderson, who was born male, to use women-only facilities.
In a letter seen by The Telegraph, the RCN in March pointed to the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, which require all changing rooms to be male or female-only except when they are “single lockable rooms”.
“The RCN expects the trust to comply with these statutory provisions and provide single-sex changing rooms without delay,” the letter reads.'

This is such great news!

My experience of my union (not RCN) is that there's a big difference between what activists say/do (eg. LGBT conference motions stating TWAW) and what the paid legal staff do. I imagine this intervention will have come from the legal team who actually understand the law and implications of the SC judgment. The activists will be fuming.
That doesn't explain how they got it so wrong on Peggie though.

Yes, that sounds about right, WhereAreWeNow. I'd love to be a fly on the wall at RCN right now.

I don’t have a massive amount of respect for these organisations. They’ve stood by and watched women getting thrown under a bus for the last decade. Oh but now, when the tide is clearly turning, suddenly they’re all over the law, being all supportive of their members, telling them ‘we’ve got your backs’. Bunch of spineless hypocritical weasels the lot of them.

I’ve just been having a root around the website. This EDI strategy progress report is a bang-your-head-on-the-table crock of word salad bingo. Specific and measurable must be for bigots.

https://www.rcn.org.uk/-/media/Royal-College-Of-Nursing/Documents/Publications/2025/May/012-110.pdf

Oh Dear.

I have just read Friday's update which includes this little gem.

Cancer care: addressing inequalities for the trans community | RCN Magazine | Royal College of Nursing

Where to start?

• No one is assigned a gender at birth.
• Males do not take oestrogens as hormone replacement therapy.
• Transwomen are at risk of prostate cancer because they are men. As such a small percentage of transwomen have genital reconstructive surgery the issue isn't the non-removal of the prostate gland for those who do.

Very slightly better news from the NMC.
At least it talks about treating all patients, staff & visitors with respect.

Supreme Court decision
Last month, the Supreme Court ruled that 'sex means biological sex for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010, providing clarity on the interpretation of the Act. This ruling is likely to have a number of implications for public bodies, including the NHS.

We are now working closely with Government to review our policies and guidance, and ensure we can provide an update as soon as possible. While this might take a little time, it's important we get this right and we will work with the wider NHS throughout this process.

As the NHS our values remain the same, and we are fully committed to treating all our patients, staff and visitors with respect. Every patient deserves high quality care that meets their needs and upholds their privacy and dignity. We also owe it to our staff to ensure they are safe and comfortable at work.

Exactly. I used to be a nurse, and an RCN member, and I think this is too little, too late.

HATE WOMEN BUT STAY WOKE is the snappiest summing up of TRAs and their male allies, well said nocoolnamesleft!

Apologies the update is from the CNO bulletin and not the NMC.