Just wanted to highlight this bit from the Mail. It shows how disturbing it was for Karen Danson, who like many of us is a survivor of sexual abuse, to be forced to undress with a man she didn't know:
"One nurse, Karen Danson, told the tribunal that at the end of September 2023, she encountered Henderson at close quarters, wearing just nursing scrubs on their upper half and tight black boxer shorts with holes in them.
In her witness statement, she said she had first encountered Henderson around August 2023 and thought that the colleague was male.
'RH looked masculine, had facial hair, and there was nothing in RH's appearance to suggest RH was anything other than a man,' she said.
She added that when she heard a rumour a trans person had joined the trust she 'expected a trans person to look and dress and generally present themselves as a woman'.
Giving evidence to the tribunal in October, Ms Danson said that when she encountered Henderson in the changing room, they asked her three times whether she would be getting changed.
Ms Danson was horrified and told the tribunal that the incident reignited sex abuse trauma she suffered as a child.
She said: 'I had walked into the changing room, and I had to walk past Rose Henderson's locker to get to mine, which is right at the bottom of the L-shaped changing room.
'Rose Henderson and I did not know each other at all, and we were alone in the changing room. I was rummaging through my bag trying to find the keys for my locker when I suddenly heard a male voice from behind my back asking, "Are you not getting changed yet?"
'I simply said "No". I kept rummaging through my bag and found my keys.
'I opened the locker and started rummaging through it to find my cream. And then Rose Henderson's voice again said, "Are you not getting changed yet?" I again said "No".
'I kept rummaging through my locker, but I was forgetting what I was looking for because all I could think about was: "Why is this man asking me if I am getting changed? Is he trying to provoke me for a reason?"’