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NHS knew of concerns about trans Dr in 2020
Read More…: NHS knew of concerns about trans Dr in 2020Whistleblower told NHS Sussex and NHS England of problems with Dr Sam Hall’s methods and was accused of transphobia. An NHS Doctor raised the alarm about the activities of Dr Sam Hall in 2020, a full five years before NHS Sussex started an investigation into Brighton’s WellBN clinic – which concluded it had it caused “actual potential harm” to its young patients and “fell substantially below” the professional standards of care required. Dr Sarah Redvers claims that as a result of her whistleblowing in 2020, she was victimised, accused of transphobia and put under investigation. Redvers is currently taking NHS…
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Peggie v RCN Day 7: Closing Submissions
Read More…: Peggie v RCN Day 7: Closing SubmissionsToday was the final day of the Peggie v RCN employmeny tribunal in which Nurse Sandie Peggie is making three claims against her union, the Royal College of Nursing. Peggie believes: Peggie says the reason for the above is because of her gender critical views. Therefore her union – which she submits is in the grip of gender ideology – discriminated against her. After six days of witness evidence, the legal representatives for both parties were given the opportunity to make closing submissions to the judge. Naomi Cunningham, Sandie Peggie’s barrister spoke first. After lunch David Hay KC, the RCN’s…
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Peggie v RCN Day 6: Patricia Marquis
Read More…: Peggie v RCN Day 6: Patricia MarquisPatricia Marquis, the Executive Director of the Royal College of Nursing in England is obviously an intelligent, personable and compassionate individual with the requisite element of corporate steel required to reach the higher echelons of large organisation. At times today she was at a loss to answer some of the questions being put to her by Sandie Peggie’s barrister, Naomi Cunningham. Not because the questions were particularly complicated, but when combined with the evidence, Marquis was forced to confront a period of time when a lot of people in civil society – particularly those in the public sector – lost…
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Peggie v RCN Day 5: Gillian Tait
Read More…: Peggie v RCN Day 5: Gillian TaitMost of today was taken up with the evidence of RCN Senior Officer Gillian Tait, but the first hour and forty minutes was dedicated to finishing the cross-examination of Union Officer Stuart Fraser – Tait’s direct report. Naomi Cunningham, Sandie Peggie’s barrister, had two main strands to her questioning of Fraser. The first was about a trans-identifying male called Freda Wallace “(She/Ra)” who in December last year posted four photos on BlueSky with the caption: “Royal College of Nursing- Education on discrimination. I used Dr Upton’s case to explain how gender critical organisations target NHS trusts. It was amazing to…
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Peggie v RCN Day 4 Pt 2: Stuart Fraser
Read More…: Peggie v RCN Day 4 Pt 2: Stuart FraserThis is part two of my report into Day 4 of Nurse Sandie Peggie’s employment tribunal claim against the Royal College of Nursing. You can read Part 1 “Nurses Assemble”, here. As with Friday’s cross-examination of Norman Provan, the interest is not in what the RCN man said in evidence, but the chain of logic that Sandie Peggie’s barrister Naomi Cunningham presented to Fraser, highlighting inconsistencies (and flat out misstatements of the law) in the RCN’s approach to gender issues. Stuart Fraser has been an RCN Officer for five years. He was the first representative Sandie Peggie spoke to on…
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Peggie v RCN Day 4 Pt 1: Nurses Assemble
Read More…: Peggie v RCN Day 4 Pt 1: Nurses AssembleThis is part one of my report into Day 4 of Nurse Sandie Peggie’s employment tribunal claim against the Royal College of Nursing. You can read part two “Peggie v RCN Day 4 Pt 2: Stuart Fraser” here. The featured evidence in the report below came from two nurses in England who got into difficulties within their NHS Trusts for the crimes of misgendering (Jennifer Melle in Surrey) or complaining about a man in their changing rooms (Bethany Hutchison and her six fellow nurses in Darlington). Proceedings began with Jennifer Melle setting out her evidence in chief to Sandie Peggie’s…
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Peggie v RCN Day 3: unProvan
Read More…: Peggie v RCN Day 3: unProvanI want to focus my Day 3 report on a specific passage of cross-examination which to my mind went beyond the (undoubtedly very important) rights and wrongs of Sandie Peggie’s claim against the RCN. It demonstrated the effectiveness of using a courtroom to hold power to account. Norman Provan was today’s only witness. He is the Royal College of Nursing’s Associate Director for Employment Relations and he has been in the job for 18 years. He sits on the senior management board of the RCN and reports directly to its executive director. He is a big man in the world’s…
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Peggie v RCN Day 2: Trans-Organisational Madness
Read More…: Peggie v RCN Day 2: Trans-Organisational MadnessThe witnesses who gave evidence today were not directly connected to Sandie Peggie’s case, but they all had direct experience of dealing with the Royal College of Nursing. They painted a picture of a union which had happily waved gender ideology into their organisation, and when it started causing chaos, appeared both institutionally and intellectually incapable (or unwilling) to deal with it. The first witness was Lisa Mackenzie, who worked part time for RCN Scotland as a policy officer in Edinburgh between 2017 and 2019. Mackenzie told the tribunal prisons were part of her policy portfolio. In her previous job…
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Peggie v RCN Day 1: Getting Taken Seriously
Read More…: Peggie v RCN Day 1: Getting Taken SeriouslySandie Peggie was back in the witness box today for the first time since her epic tribunal against NHS Fife. Peggie is claiming discrimination against her for her gender critical beliefs, but this time the fight is against her union, the Royal College of Nursing. Both cases originated from events which began in August 2023 when a trans-identifying junior doctor called Beth Upton was given permission by NHS Fife to use the female changing rooms at Victoria Hospital’s A&E department in Kirkcaldy, Fife, where Sandie Peggie worked as a senior (Grade 5) nurse. Peggie encountered Upton on three occasions, complained…
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Peggie v RCN: “I want this to be a wake-up call”
Read More…: Peggie v RCN: “I want this to be a wake-up call”This is an expanded and re-edited version of the interview which appeared in the Sunday Times on 20 September: Although she seems a little weary when we speak, there’s a certain steel about Sandie Peggie. “I do feel like a poster girl,” she says. “I’m kind of glad that I’m at the forefront of it.” It requires some explanation. Three years ago Peggie, a senior nurse, objected to a male doctor, Beth Upton, using a female changing room at the A&E department in the NHS hospital in Kirkcaldy where they both worked. After a confrontation between Peggie and the transgender doctor just…
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