Darlington nurses awarded £187k in single-sex spaces case

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An NHS Trust has paid out £187,000 in compensation to a group of nurses who won a tribunal case over its policy to allow trans women in female changing rooms.

The panel ruled that the Trust had unlawfully discriminated against and harassed the nurses by requiring them to share female-only changing rooms with a biological male who identified as a woman.

The nurses, who raised concerns with management in July 2023, said they had been required, without warning or consultation, to share changing facilities with a biological male colleague who identifies as female and is known as “Rose.”

Seven nurses at Darlington Memorial Hospital – Bethany Hutchison, Lisa Lockey, Karen Danson, Tracy Hooper, Annice Grundy, Carly Hoy and Jane Peveller – will share the payout.

Full article here https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/darlington-nurses-payout/

Ongoing discussion here https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5476620-darlington-nurses-vs-county-durham-and-darlington-nhs-trust-tribunal-thread-9?page=15

Just thought it worthwhile having a sort of news flash posting!

Marvellous, thank you @IwantToRetire
Let the floodgates open!

That’s great news!
shane it wasn’t more but hopefully an excellent holiday for all of them.

I'm so happy for them. They deserve every penny.

Outrageous that Darlington NHS Trust behaved in a way that made this payout necessary.

Congratulations to those nurses 🎉

Good news

And who’s paying for that?? Clearly not rose.

Quite. It should be deducted from the salaries of all those who made and enforced that policy.

Well, the letters they've received are certainly humbling.

Hopefully will jolt the rest of the "progressive idiocy" back to reality

‘The Trust has also agreed to provide separate changing rooms, sanitary conveniences and washing facilities for men and women in accordance with its obligations under health and safety regulations.’

I hope schools take note.

A line in the sand.

Excellent news - and as it should be. The fact that they had to go through this is horrendous though.

I lot of the high up's in the NHS are on bonuses, lets get them to pay for it. 😁

great news

Bloody good.

Agree, until those making and enforcing these decisions are either disciplined themselves or hit personally in the pocket they won't learn.

This is good news, but I think it should have been 187k each. However, it's the acknowledgement and validation that count.
The management team, if on bonus, should not receive any.

... Health & Safety Regulations?

I'm just imagining how difficult they found writing those letters was, I bet the writer(s) went off sick for a few months to recover.

I don't for one minute think the contents or the writer(s) of those letters are sincere.

"Their claim was supported by the Christian Legal Centre, which said that the compensation had been agreed after “extensive and at times deeply protracted negotiations”.

They paid up through gritted teeth.

"The sum does not include legal costs, which will be decided at a future hearing. Christian Care estimated the Trust’s own legal costs at £603,000."
They'll have to pay the nurse's costs as well, surely. Whatever, hundreds of thousands of NHS money spent on this, what a total fucking fuck up, I hope people get sacked.

Not a hope - although there will be lots of reflection and lessons learned 🙄

I hope it sends a very clear signal to any Trust/Board thinking of pulling a stunt like this, and that it gives Sandie Peggie a great deal of confidence as she waits for her appeal hearing.

All those that enabled this policy need to be sacked. Hope it opens the floodgates to more of these wins. People can’t change sex and it’s just enraging that those women were gaslighted and humiliated. They deserve much more than that paltry amount.

Excellent news. I’m coincidentally just listening to their podcast interview with WRN. Such brave women.

Oh I say!

Oh well done! Vindication. 🍾🥂

Excellent result. Well done to the fabulous nurses. 👏👏👏