"The group of eight nurses employed at Darlington Memorial Hospital took County Durham and Darlington NHS Trust to an employment tribunal over their colleague Rose Henderson, a trans woman, being allowed to use single-sex spaces such as changing rooms under its policies. Henderson had used the changing rooms since starting at the hospital as a student in 2019, but complaints were only raised by the nurses in 2023."
"Earlier this month, the judgement in the case set out that the nurses had experienced harassment from their NHS Trust with the "effect of violating the dignity of the claimants and creating a hostile, intimidating, humiliating and degrading environment for them". However, claims Henderson personally harassed the nurses were dismissed, alongside the claim that the Trust had victimised the claimants."
County Durham and Darlington NHS Trust has been ruled to have harassed eight nurses who complained about a trans colleague using female changing rooms and is reviewing its policies while adding more single-occupancy facilities. The nurses at Darlington Memorial Hospital brought an employment tribunal over Rose Henderson, a trans woman, being allowed to use single-sex spaces; Henderson had used the changing rooms since 2019 and complaints were raised in 2023. The nurses' case was supported by the Christian Legal Centre. The tribunal found harassment by the Trust that violated the claimants' dignity, while dismissing allegations that Henderson personally harassed or that the Trust victimised them. The outcome follows a UK Supreme Court decision defining "sex" as biological sex under the 2010 Equality Act.
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