Mick Hartley

Janice Turner in the Times on the class snobbery at the heart of the Sandie Peggie case – a working-class woman being hounded by doctors and managers for wrongthink on trans ideology:

Each day we learnt new ways in which senior hospital staff had persecuted a nurse with a flawless record. Jamie Doyle, head of nursing, wanted Peggie reported to the police. Upton claimed to have noted earlier incidents in which Peggie’s hostility towards him had endangered patients. But no one corroborated these grave claims and an IT expert who analysed Upton’s phone testified that these were not contemporaneous notes but added after the Christmas Eve row. (Peggie was cleared of these and other allegations in a separate hospital disciplinary inquiry.)

Why did all of these senior people fall over themselves to take Upton’s side, even at the expense of truth? Because trans identity tops an all-important oppression hierarchy and the purest form of virtue is being a “trans ally”. To prove this, both the head of diversity, Isla Bumba, and Searle, an A&E consultant, claimed neither knew Upton’s sex, or even their own. “I’ve never had my chromosomes tested,” said Bumba. Does Searle do this before prescribing the correct drug dosage for a female patient? Of course not. No one really believes such absurdity: they mouth it out of religious obeisance….

Four months after the Supreme Court clarified the meaning of sex, it is an outrage that public money is still being squandered while women fight for basic rights. Why does the Health and Safety Executive not remind employers of 1992 workplace laws which mandate single-sex changing? Why are NHS England and the NHS Confederation allowed by the health secretary, Wes Streeting, to drag their feet? The ludicrous joke that sex is an unfathomable mystery has worn very thin.