"The employment tribunal, which took place earlier this year, was high profile and controversial. It was brought by Ms Peggie, a nurse who has worked for the NHS for 30 years. She refused to share a women's changing room with a transgender colleague at Victoria Hospital, in Kirkcaldy, and was suspended from work at the beginning of 2024. Ms Peggie claimed her experiences amounted to harassment and took legal action against the health board and Dr Upton, citing the Equality Act 2010."
"It said that when she complained to her employers about Dr Upton using the women's changing rooms, permission should have been revoked on an interim basis. It said the NHS should have stopped allowing Dr Upton to use the changing area until different work rotas took effect - at which point they wouldn't be working together. The tribunal also ruled that the health board had taken an unreasonable time to investigate the claims against her."
Sandie Peggie, a nurse with 30 years' NHS service, was suspended after refusing to share a women's changing room with Dr Beth Upton, a biological male who identifies as a woman. An employment tribunal found that NHS Fife harassed Ms Peggie in multiple ways, including failing to revoke interim permission for the transgender doctor to use the women's changing room, not stopping use until rota changes separated them, taking an unreasonable time to investigate claims against her, and wrongly instructing her not to discuss the case. Other allegations against the health board were dismissed, and all claims against Dr Upton were rejected. Ms Peggie described the past two years as agonising; NHS Fife said it would work through the judgment details.
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