PG on Nostr: She explained to the tribunal that she was experiencing heavy menstruation and felt ...

She explained to the tribunal that she was experiencing heavy menstruation and felt "embarrassed"w and "intimidated" when Dr Upton entered the changing room and began undressing. Dr Upton, for those who have not been following the case, was born male and is at least six feet tall. Make-up and discreet silver jewellery cannot mask the good doctor’s male physiology. As Sandie Peggie told the tribunal, she was not discomfited by Dr Upton being transgender, but by having to share female changing facilities with a male-bodied person, as indeed most women would be, especially when bleeding heavily. Sandie made her feelings clear, much to Upton’s distaste. As the solidly middle class doctor, still in his twenties, told the tribunal, “I’ve never been spoken to like that in my life.”

Gender identity theory is largely a middle class pursuit, a fake radicalism which doesn't bother it’s pretty little head with tackling the material causes of poverty and inequality. Instead, as feminist writer Sheila Jeffries argued in 2014, it is a social construct designed to maintain male dominance. And since its inception, the National Health Service has put the demands of the doctor class first before the needs of the largely working class nursing and support staff.

Former Labour MSP Jenny Marra, who attended the tribunal over several days, said the evidence reeked of class and entitlement. She observed: "Middle class arrogant male doctor breaches nurse's boundaries is not a new story. But this time the doctor is facing down the nurse with the backing of politicians and illegal guidelines drawn up by public sector officials who have been hoodwinked into betraying reality and the many working class women at the frontline of our public services”.

https://open.substack.com/pub/susandalgety/p/nurse-sandie-peggie-v-dr-beth-upton?r=dfyz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false