"The trust subjected the claimants to harassment related to sex and gender reassignment by permitting the claimants' biological male, trans woman colleague to use the female changing room and requiring the claimants to share that changing room without providing suitable alternative facilities. The ruling said the trust also subjected the nurses to harassment by not taking their concerns seriously. This included referring to the need for the claimants to be educated on trans rights and to broaden their mindsets,"
"The nurses claimed during the tribunal hearing in Newcastle that Henderson stared at them, and one of the nurses alleged that Henderson asked her three times if she was going to get changed. Henderson, in her evidence, said: I am not the individual [the claimants] have painted me to be. She described how upsetting it had been to see hordes of people posting insults online after the case came to public attention."
Eight female nurses at Darlington Memorial Hospital brought a claim against County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust after objecting to a trans woman colleague using women's changing facilities. The tribunal found the trust permitted a biological male, trans woman colleague to use the female changing room and required the nurses to share it without suitable alternative facilities. The trust also failed to take their concerns seriously, referring to educating the claimants about trans rights and later providing inadequate alternatives. The conduct violated the nurses' dignity and created a hostile, intimidating, humiliating and degrading work environment. The trans colleague disputed the nurses' portrayal and reported online abuse.
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