Mick Hartley

The managers at the Epsom and St Helier Hospitals NHS Trust have finally realised that it doesn’t look good, taking the side of a convicted trans paedophile who attacked and racially abused a nurse after she refused to use his precious female pronouns.

A nurse threatened with the sack after she “misgendered” a transgender paedophile prisoner has been reinstated to her NHS job.

Jennifer Melle, 40, was reported to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) after she referred to an inmate from a high-security men’s prison listed as male on their medical record, as “Mr” and “he”.

She was then hauled before a disciplinary hearing, accused of breaching patient confidentiality by speaking to the media, an allegation she denied.

It’s good news, coming so soon after the Darlington nurses victory – but how on earth did it ever come to this? What idiots decided this was a worthy fight? – taking the side of a violent paedophile against one of their own nurses. That staying true to gender ideology was more important than supporting a nurse who’d been assaulted and racially abused.

Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the Conservatives, wrote on the social media site X: “I am delighted for Jennifer that common sense has prevailed. But it is not justice.

“Jennifer has been dragged through the mire for two long years. And for what? Radical gender ideology that makes a mockery of the law. The Government must act to end these absurd witch hunts.”

Added: the BBC report, meanwhile, omits any mention that the person “misgendered” was a paedophile serving time in prison – and indeed carefully uses the phrase “transgender patient”, never identifying him as a man. Though it does find room to mention Melle’s “evangelical Christian beliefs”.