"Darlington Nurses" vs County Durham and Darlington NHS Trust Tribunal Thread 8

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Thread 1, 7-Oct to 23-Oct; pre-hearing discussion, KD (day 1 of evidence) and BH (day 2).
Thread 2, 23-Oct to 28-Oct; BH (day 2), CH, JP, MG (day 3&4), TH, SS, ST, LL (day 4), JS, AT (day 5)
Thread 3, 28-Oct to 29-Oct; AT (day 5&6), TA (day 6&7)
Thread 4, 29-Oct to 31-Oct; TA, AM (day 7) JB (day 8)
Thread 5, 31-Oct to 04-Nov; JB (day 8), SW, CG, JR (day 9)
Thread 6, 04-Nov to 05-Nov; RH (day 10), SW (day 11)
Thread 7, 05-Nov to 11-Nov; SW (day 11), closing submissions

Five nurses working at Darlington Memorial Hospital have filed a legal case suing their employer, an NHS trust, for sexual harassment and sex discrimination. The nurses object to sharing the women’s changing facilities with a male colleague, Rose, who identifies as female. The hearing started on October 20th, with evidence now complete. Submissions are being made on November 11th. To view the hearing online requests for access had to be made by October 17th. The hearing is being live tweeted by Tribunal Tweets who have background to this case on their substack. An alternative to X is to use Nitter: nitter.net/tribunaltweets or nitter.poast.org/tribunaltweets

The Judge made clear at the start of the public hearing on Day 1 that only TT or press have permission to tweet. If online observers see/hear something in the court that isn’t reported by TT, we don’t mention it until the next time there’s a break. This is a very cautious approach to avoid any accusations of “live reporting” on MN. Commentary on the content of TT tweets is fine as soon as they’re posted on X.

Key people:
C/Ns - Claimants, the Darlington nurses
R/T/Trust - Respondent, County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
J/EJ – Judge/Employment Judge Seamus Sweeney
NF - Niazi Fetto KC, barrister for claimants
SC - Simon Cheetham, KC, barrister for respondents
RH - Rose Henderson, trans identifying nurse
CG – Clare Gregory, NHS ward manager
SW - Sue Williams, NHS Trust HR
KD – Karen Danson, first claimant to give evidence.
BH – Bethany Hutchison, claimant
AH – Alistair Hutchison, husband of Bethany
CH – Carly Hoy, claimant
JP – Jane Peveller, claimant
MG – Mary Anne (aka Annice) Grundy, claimant
TH – Tracy Hooper, claimant
SS – Siobhan Sinclair, witness for the claimants, retired from Trust
ST – Sharron Trevarrow, witness for the claimants, retired from Trust, former housekeeper and wellbeing officer
LL – Lisa Lockey, claimant
JP – Professor Jo Phoenix, expert witness
JS – Jane Shields, witness for the claimants
AT - Andrew Thacker, NHS trust Head of HR
TA – Tracy Atkinson, NHS trust HR.
AM – Andrew Moore, NHS Head of Workforce Experience
JB – Jillian Bailey, NHS Workforce Experience Manager
AT – Anna Telfer, NHS Deputy Director of Nursing
SW – Sandra Watson, Matron for General and Elective Surgery
JR – Jodie Robinson, manager of Rose

So in the BBC's latest update they have paraphrased Bethany Hutchinson's quote about forcing women to undress in front of men (which is what she said as has been reported elsewhere). The BBC say "transgender colleagues". This is misleading and sneaky because it suggests they objected to Rose because he is trans, rather than because he is male.

Kind of wish you hadn't said that because now I have the image in my head

With archive link https://archive.ph/c2qD5

I need to go upstairs and get my other phone that I have the Reddit app and my BlueSky account installed on 😂

Sorry!

They just can't help themselves!

Sneaky bastards.

If I were Bethany, I'd be demanding they retract that and report what I'd said accurately and truthfully, instead. As they bloody well should have done in the first place.

Trans ideologues are obsessed with the idea of genital checks. It’s almost like they are attempting to will them into existence.

Yes. Since Rose's behaviour was not impugned by the tribunal, RMW could have no possible defence resting on impeccable behaviour. It's the mere presence of the man that constitutes harassment.

From the Telegraph -

She added: “Women deserve access to single-sex spaces without fear or intimidation. Forcing us to undress in front of a man was not only degrading but dangerous.'

From the BBC

She says women deserve access to single-sex spaces "without fear or intimidation" and "forcing" them to undress in front of transgender colleagues is "not only degrading but dangerous"

As we’re talking about motivation, I wonder if RMW and other older TWs don’t like using the men’s facilities because of responses from other men falling into weirdo/perv/whatever/mocking categories. Whereas responses from women fall into fearful/indifferent/fawning categories?

Possibly too sweeping, but whether they fear the rejection in the one whilst feeling powerful in the woman’s.

That is egregious! Ye gods, that just completely changes her statement.

Probably why Stonewall is getting its ‘Oh no, we’re broke’ narrative in early.

Well, that and it being crap.

If the “bigot” changing room guarantees me a single sex, women only facility to undress in I’m in.

Thank you for the quotes – it is absolutely clear from this how different reporting can sound by changing one or two words and putting quote marks around particular phrases

I've just had a quick look at Bluesky. They're not happy.

Are they ever?

Another quote from the sad TRAs on Reddit: "Remember, Labour could end all this nonsense with the inclusion of one extra line in the equality act.. and no-one would know!!

"I will never vote Labour again."

Nobody would know if they changed the Equality Act. These are not serious people.

They've done sneaky quotes around bits they've cherry picked to suit their narrative, so she can't accuse them of directly misquoting her. Yet they are misquoting her, because they have materially changed the meaning of what she said to deliberately mislead readers about her.

The Independent on line quotes that the remarks to the nurses about educating themselves added to the harassment making it worse.
The Hospital Trust is at fault for not taking the complaint seriously.

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jan/16/female-nurses-win-employment-case-over-nhs-changing-room-use-by-trans-colleague

They've learned a lot from Kemp in selective quotations.....

To a Believer though, Rose is not a man, and is just a woman who is a trans kind of woman, and therefore being rejected by the other ducklings women on the grounds of their trans characteristic.

To a non believer, Rose is just a man.

https://archive.ph/vjA2o

BBC framing this as "partial victory" now 🙄 Anything to play it down.