He also questioned whether the Trust was prioritising a policy objective over the emotional cost to the nurses.
Let's be honest, it was not a 'policy objective', it was a determined, partisan political agenda being inflicted on employees without regard for their consent, needs, emotions or anything else. And without regard for duty of impartiality and inclusion and accessibility as those last two words are not solely about men who crossdress, whatever certain political groups would have you believe.
They were determined to enforce male access to non consenting women in a state of undress and to overturn any right of women to privacy, dignity or consent. It is that plain and that ugly.
And much of the money has been spent in attempt to punish and frighten women into just submissively getting their clothes off for such men, or creeping quietly away into hidden places to be able to do the necessary changing for their jobs. It's been about making sure as far as possible that other women are too afraid to resist.
I hope this trust is taken to the bloody cleaners, enough to scare the living crap out of every other trust. Much as I bitterly resent the waste of very badly needed money and the harm this prolonged gallop on a wicked and misogynist hobby horse will have done to the services to patients. And absolutely bloody yes to all public funded bodies, all of them, having to justify to the last decimal place the use of their funding on legal costs for vanity/political colonial and savage bullying cases like this one before being permitted to do it.