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Well done to the Nurses who stood up for Women’s Rights

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Rosie51 Sat 17-Jan-26 17:22:51

I don't know how many more women are going to have to go to employment tribunals and the like before the government insist on the law being enacted, but let's also not forget these actions have to be privately funded. There have to be fund raisers to cover the high cost of the legal representation. Of course the employers have public funds available to them, the rest covered by insurance so don't care how protracted the proceedings are.

Flippin2 Sat 17-Jan-26 17:18:21

I have a trans niece who wouldn't put anyone in a scenario like those ladies experienced..

TerriBull Sat 17-Jan-26 17:12:40

I have a gut feeling, and maybe I'm wrong, that there would be some in the government who would have preferred the ruling to go the other way, they just don't come across as being very on board with it.

I dread to think if that had been the outcome, how all the areas we regard as safe places would be severely compromised.

Doodledog Sat 17-Jan-26 16:56:30

I really hope it is just the beginning. We now need to make it more acceptable for transwomen to be 'out' as such, and not to fool themselves into thinking that nobody knows. When that happens they can more easily change in front of other men.

What is the point of a single-sex space that can be used by people of either sex?

Allira Sat 17-Jan-26 16:36:24

Well done to them all.

A victory for common sense but it's just the beginning.

Galaxy Sat 17-Jan-26 16:35:28

You don't bugger about with Northern womengrin.
Seriously though this is my NHS trust, how am I supposed to have faith in the service they offer.

AGAA4 Sat 17-Jan-26 16:29:10

The nurses had complained that he/she had been watching them undressing. Very creepy and possibly dangerous.
How many of us would want our DDs or GDs in that position.

TerriBull Sat 17-Jan-26 16:24:14

Honestly who would have thought if we were to wind back a matter of 20 years or so. that women would have to jump through hoops in going through a 16 day trial to prove what has already been established and what should be an absolute right for the safety, privacy and dignity of the individual.

Given the constant mantra of "the letter of the law must be obeyed" when it suits why therefore has there been so much shilly shallying on the part of Bridget Phillipson in holding back trans guidance to work forces.?

No woman or girl should have to suffer the indignities these women have had to put up with. "Institutional Idiocy" indeed it is!

AGAA4 Sat 17-Jan-26 16:22:11

Well done to them. The idiocy of telling 300 female nurses that if they weren't happy in a changing room with a man a cupboard had been made available for them.
It really beggars belief. So glad people are beginning to see sense.
A transwoman is a man.

Oreo Sat 17-Jan-26 16:00:05

And changing rooms and other spaces for women only.
You’d think it would be pretty cut and dried now wouldn’t you?
Anyway, well done them and any other woman who has stood up for women’s rights.It takes backbone to go up against institutional idiocy.

NanKate Sat 17-Jan-26 15:57:34

What a great outcome, but why did it take so long (16 day trial) to agree that only biological women should allowed in the Ladies Loos?