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

[IwantToRetire]

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!

Gosh, Curious has been a busy boy today. Something to say on every thread.
And none of it interesting.

The TRA's sandcastles in the sand are all being washed away. What a relief. Sanity is being restored.

Go tell it to the judge dear

You mean the class of person who responds with

'Given the relevance of the thread, bless you dear 😉'

What class of person would say something like that, I wonder?

Oh look it was CuriousQueer · Today 17:59 on the 'Catholic sisters' thread!
😁

"we" 😄

Don't pretend you have friends

It is marvellous that the safety and dignity of women is finally being protected. What sort of extreme misogynist would it take to object to that?

Run along dear, I am sure it is past your bedtime.

What super powers you must possess to be able to tell my class from 11 words.

As far as I am aware absolutely nothing is compelling you to be on MN if it is such an objectionable sewer, feel free to leave for pastures new at any time.

I am reading this thread, half watching the footy, in the dark with the window open. A moth came in heading for the tv, swiftly followed by a bat. They did a few circuits then both left.

Somehow that seems apt.

Batz

(to the invasion that is)

Great news.
But, fundamentally every taxpayer has been funding the NHS to break the law. I really wish there was some kind of personal reaponsibility that had to be taken by someone.

The 'civilised world' look down on

Would that include the Supreme Court?
You know it's protected to know and understand that sex is not gender...

Which is kinda handy for doctors and patients everywhere. Throughout the civilised and uncivilised world.

Cos biology.

I did that.
Through MN.
Helped get the NHS to change policy on something else. There was a government letter and everything to MN.

MN is quite good for women's rights and getting politicians and institutions to listen to legitimate concerns.

Odd isn't it?

Which women's rights do you have a problem with?

Which women's rights do you have a problem with?

In CuriousQueer's world that would be all of them, women and especially the likes of us shouldn't have any rights.

Presumably this means that other nurses who were forced to change with Rose can now also ask the Trust for compensation and take them to a tribunal to get it? Or is there a time limit that's passed? (when did the Trust finally start following the law?)

Brilliant news. Well done to all of those nurses for their courage and determination in taking this to the tribunal.

In other, completely unrelated news, A.T (head of HR) announced his retirement the day before this news broke.
I'm sure it's just a coincidence.

Bound to be - couldn't be related to this case, surely.

In what reality? Tired of Explaining Reality to Fools (I'm being polite), in this reality is on the 'right side of history'. When we come to write it, TRA's might get a footnote, if we're feeling #BeKind.

How odd.

That a massive coincidence.