Mick Hartley

Joanna Cherry in the Spectator on the NHS Fife – Sandie Peggie case:

Across the UK, NHS services are coming under increasing pressure. Hospital waiting lists are too long while A&E departments struggle with patient demand. Nevertheless, at an employment tribunal in Scotland this week, we have learned that health boards like NHS Fife can apparently afford to suspend a senior A&E nurse with 30 years’ experience and an unblemished record for months simply because she dared to question the presence of a transwoman doctor in the ladies changing room….

The otherwise cash-strapped NHS doesn’t have to worry about funding its defence: it has the bottomless pit of taxpayers’ money to rely on. Senior Counsel has been instructed to represent both the NHS Trust and Dr Upton, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of pounds of public cash and the many hours of lost NHS time. To make matters worse the whole thing is proceeding at a snail’s pace largely because the health service appear to have failed to fully comply with a court order for production of documents. NHS Fife has been forced by the sterling efforts of Ms Peggie’s barrister to produce more files as the case progresses, necessitating frequent stops and starts….

Not since the case of Isla Bryson (the trans rapist who wanted to go to a woman’s prison) has the Scottish public seen such a stark example of the results of embedding gender identity ideology. The painstaking work of a small cabal of lobbyists has poisoned our institutions with a science-denying dogma designed to elevate the rights of biological men who claim they are women above all else. A noticeable feature of the case is the silence of nursing unions. Women’s rights are not high on the list of priorities of most trade unions these days.

Far from turning a blind eye to this, our political class have by and large waived it through. While this may have happened in Scotland on the SNP’s watch it should never be forgotten that at UK level gender creep happened under the Tories – though they have now seen the light. This malaise has infected all political parties.

And virtually all our institutions – including, of course, the NHS. And IPSO [the Independent Press Standards Organisation].

Cherry on X, "My original copy said “man” in the ladies changing room, but the trans cult which is essentially a men’s rights movement has captured the chocolate teapot that is IPSO so even the Spectator have to bow down to censorship."

See here 0n how IPSO surrendered to the trans lobby.